Former Mohegan Engine (Ward Lafrance) Was Headed For The Scrap Heap

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Used to be Mohegan Engine 256 or Engine 257. Our own Howard Peiffer , former LMFD and former Palm Coast Chief has been with it since it was born and they moved to Florida together lol.

Not only did it get saved from the scrap heap, but here's the best part.....it's coming back to Lake Mohegan!

I love this style of Ward LaFrance, growing up Hartsdale and Fairview they had them and saw them all the time, and love the look of the cab.

I'm so happy it's getting saved plus going back to it's original home. I wish I could have bought Hartsdale's. These rigs are also a part of New York state history, as they were built in Elmira, NY.

2 old Palm Coast firetrucks destined for scrap heap will roll on elsewhere

Palm Coast City Council votes to donate 1 truck, sell another

Engine 222 is a 1976 Ward LaFrance that former Palm Coast fire chief Howard Peiffer watched being built in 1975 (Originally For Lake Mohegan Fire Department). City Council members on Tuesday agreed to sell it for $3,000 to a volunteer fire department in the same city from which it originated nearly 40 years ago.

Article: http://www.news-journalonline.com/article/20151215/NEWS/151219724/101040?Title=2-old-Palm-Coast-firetrucks-destined-for-scrap-heap-will-roll-on-elsewhere

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This is a great thing... Mohegan gets their old rig back and Evarts gets a resource they sorely need. My wife's entire family was from the county that surrounds Evarts. Harlan County Kentucky is quite possibly one of the most beautiful and simultaneously awful places in our country. A victim of the declining coal industry. Her mom and dad were glad to get out of there and be the first in their families to go to college. We go back to visit every year or so. Salt of the earth folks up there. The donation of the fire truck will go a long way.

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What was the fate of its twin?

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Glad to see it's return... remember Yonkers had one engine 2..not to mention the infamous engine 51 LACFD.....joe

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The town of mamaroneck had a 1967 ward lafrance open cab

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Is the truck in Mohegan yet

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Former Mohegan E-256 is heading to its original home town, but under new ownership. After faithfully serving the Palm Coast Fl. F.D. for 13 years, it has been purchased by the Mohegan Volunteer Fire Association. I loaded it onto a trailer yesterday and it should arrive in Mohegan tomorrow afternoon.

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Here it was at the Yorktown Parade the other night:

 

 

 

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My Photo From Yorktown Parade