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President Thqmas Tear of the fire department declared that the new fire engine was desperately needed. “We've got to have new equipment, and I hope everybody will get behind it," he said. “One bad fire can cost the community much more than the price of a new engine, besides causing terrible distress to some family and maybe even loss of life.”
Fire Chief Charles Compton confirmed the fact that Iboth of Amissville’s two old engines were inadequate for proper fire protection to the community. .
“Our old engine just can’t be relied on,” he said. “We’ve never sure when we start out for a fire whether we’ll get there. We’ve got a fine firehouse allright, but that doesn’t put out fires, we need a good engine.”
Department members reported that no breakdown on the road had yet occurred, but Assistant Fire Chief Elmer Jenkins expressed the opinion that they had been Iticky, so far. The motor in the light Ford truck was “just about on its last legs,” he said
The Amissville department started “ operations last year with two old trucks for which it paid only $200 and $50 respectively* one being a discard by the Round Hill V.F.D. and the other a condemned piece of apparatus from the District of Columbia.
The Round Hill V.F.D. discard, a light Ford, has been the main reliance of the department, as the old Seagrave from the District of Columbia was found unsuitable for country road and field work almost from the beginning.
Subsequently a special committee of officers and members of the department, looking into the possibility of another good used fire truck, decided that the best policy would be purchase of new equipment instead of taking chances with old apparatus.
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