American LeFrance

[Dingo]

This fire truck was built for a lady friend I knew many years ago and although it is not any where near what our fire trucks look like she was glad I built it, you see way back in the 60's her husband was a fireman here in my home town and during a major dept. store fire he and 2 other firemen where trapped in the building, they where on the second floor fighting the blaze when it caught them as it jump from floor 3 down to floor 2 they thought they could get out through the windows at the front of the store but when they smashed the glass the building had nonmoveable shutters a idea on the outside, the 3 men died trying to save each so when I heard about this years later from this lady I asked if it was OK by her to build this unit, of which I presented it to her as a memorial to her husband and the other 2 brave guys.

Dingo

[chrismooney]

This fire truck was built for a lady friend I knew many years ago and although it is not any where near what our fire trucks look like she was glad I built it, you see way back in the 60's her husband was a fireman here in my home town and during a major dept. store fire he and 2 other firemen where trapped in the building, they where on the second floor fighting the blaze when it caught them as it jump from floor 3 down to floor 2 they thought they could get out through the windows at the front of the store but when they smashed the glass the building had nonmoveable shutters a idea on the outside, the 3 men died trying to save each so when I heard about this years later from this lady I asked if it was OK by her to build this unit, of which I presented it to her as a memorial to her husband and the other 2 brave guys.

Dingo

Nice tribute build

[Dingo]

Thanks Chris yes it was a good thing to do, to my surprise only just last week one of her sons hunted me down and asked if I would like the model back as she has just passed away I said to the lad "no mate it was built as a tribute to your dad many years ago" it has now been presented to to local fire station as a tribute display to all firemen who have died fighting fires either cause by idiots or naturally.

Dingo