Dispatchers say just after 5:45 pm, a minivan hit the fire engine South 25th and Market Streets. Dispatchers said they did not know the severity of the driver’s injuries.

Harrisburg Fire Chief Brian Enterline said no emergency responders were hurt. Enterline said the engine that was hit was Harrisburg’s brand-new Wagon 4, which runs from Station 2 in Allison Hill.

The engine was towed from the scene.

The antique vehicle went on auction on Saturday, Oct. 21, at VanDerBrink Auctions LLC in Lawton, Okla., as part of the John Lewis Collection. The Jefferson Fire Department was able to secure it with an $8,500 bid courtesy of a loan from the City of Jefferson.

“Since being awarded the truck, Yvette VanDerBrink (owner of VanDerBrink Auctions LLC) has reached out to me twice in two separate emails,” Jefferson Fire Chief Ron Wegner said. “The first one was to tell me, the second one, to me, was kind of to drive the point home: … this is an extremely rare piece and there may not be another one.

Fire Chief Kristin Chilton says it would be cost prohibitive to train every firefighter for these particular emergencies. “Detailed operations like I said like rope rescue in confined space and high and low angle rescue, large animal rescue, a lot of extrication, like we had a bus or a tank truck that was turned over on the interstate,” said Chilton.  “This carries a lot of heavy duty equipment that could be used in those types of situations”

Since 2011, Lexington government has spent almost $18 million to improve firefighting equipment, including just over $14 million on trucks. 

There is quite a bit of damage to one of their fire trucks.

They say that the wind turned the fire on the truck, and they had to use their hoses to put a fire out on their own vehicle.

None of their firefighters were injured.