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Between Wednesday and Friday of last week, some low life syphoned the gas from the Washington Volunteer Fire Department’s fire truck parked at the site of the company’s new fire hall.
Fortunately, the tanker ran out of fuel on its way back from a fire rather than answering a call to an emergeny.
Times are tight and the squeeze at the gas pump is one of the tightest squeezes of all. But stealing gas from a fire truck? The criminals involved couldn’t sink much lower unless an ambulance or rescue vehicle.
If the tanker had run dry on its way to the fire, flames could have taken life and destroyed property before another company had time to respond to the emergency.
We’d like to think that the crime was committed by strangers passing through but this doesn’t appear to be the case. Whoever stole the gas knew
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