Vintage Fire Apparatus Museum Nears Opening

Dennis Hirschbrunner, president of the Columbus Area Antique Fire Apparatus Preservation Society, will open a museum dedicated to fire trucks, reports The Columbus Telegram.

A 1949 American LaFrance fire truck is one of the vehicles which will be featured in a fire truck museum slated to open at the first of the year.

So far, the collection includes a 1935 Chevrolet 4-door sedan that had been previously utilized as a clown car, a 1965 snorkel truck that’s boom extends to 75 feet, a 1957 open cab American LaFrance truck, and a combination ladder and pump truck. The vehicles were built and purchased in different parts of the U.S., including Texas, Virginia and Massachusetts.

Ravenswood (WV) VFD Pumper Rolls Over After Leaving Slick Roadway

The three firefighters in the wreck were sent to the hospital with non life-threatening injuries.

Two Spokane (WA) Fire Apparatus Slide Down Icy Hill; Crash Into House, Cars

A Spokane ladder truck and pumper slid down the same icy hill. The ladder truck hit a house and the pumper hit two parked cars.