South Milwaukee, Wis. – The South Milwaukee fire service has taken an important step this week in its quest to restore a recently acquired room in the history of the department.
What they say:
A woman in the west of Wisconsin recently donated a truck on the SMFD American scale in 1938. City workers were able to bring the truck to “cough”, a first step in the restoration process, when the engine arose.
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South Milwaukee’s firefighters, John Litchford, joined Wisconsin Live Desk on the project on Friday. Although he has no restoration experience or even a place to put the truck, he jumped at the opportunity to recover it.
“They asked us if we wanted it to come back and, you know, I thought about it for about a second, and I said,” Yes “”, he said. “It was one of these things. This is a unique opportunity, you know, is that something I need in my life? Absolutely not. I don’t need an 87-year-old restoration project, but I felt that South Milwaukee, we are really big in our heritage.”
Litchford said that employees in the city of the City Street also made the Lights and Sirens of the Old Fire Truck work. They hope to have it restored for a future heritage week event.
The source: Fox6 News interviewed Litchford for information in this story.
