Rick Ross Buys Fire Truck for Atlanta (GA) Mansion

If you think you’re well-equipped with a fire extinguisher, smoke detectors, and sprinklers in your home, you need to step up your safety game. Rapper Rick Ross has taken fire prevention to the next level and purchased an actual fire truck for his Atlanta mansion, the Promise Land.

“Growing up in Carol City (FL), when the ice cream truck came down the street, we used to jump on the back of the ice cream truck and hold on,” he said on Instagram on Friday, though he made it clear that it wasn’t an April Fool’s joke. “When fire trucks used to drive by … I always wanted to ride on one of them, so guess what. I bought a fire truck. It’s going down.”

He added that the apparatus will be on display at the May 21 Rick Ross Car & Bike Show at the Promise Land.

“This is an emotional moment for me; I bought my first fire truck,” he says.

His use of “first” here implies that there could be more apparatus purchases on the way.

Although he never says which department the apparatus belonged to in the video, it has a plaque on it that says U.S. Department of the Navy.

Does it still run?

“Of course it [runs],” he says. “We ain’t playing no games. My collection is unmatched.”

Perhaps he and actor Jeremy Renner should hang out.

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