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22 Years of Saving Gets Iowa Department a New Rig
LETTS, Iowa - After 22 years of saving money and holding fundraisers, the Letts Volunteer Fire Department in eastern Iowa has a new $212,000 fire truck.
Letts Mayor Jerry Kirk also is a firefighter and he says the fire board has been saving the money and "rolling it over in CDs." Kirk says the department doesn't "owe a penny" on the truck. The department received the vehicle this month and firefighters took a photo around their new truck on Friday.
The mayor says the department has fish and chicken fries as fundraisers and gets annual tax money from townships.
The truck was manufactured by Toyne Inc. of Breda.
Fire chief June Anne Gaeta says the department averages 40 runs each year.
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Information from: Muscatine Journal, http://www.muscatinejournal.com
Copyright 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Letts Mayor Jerry Kirk also is a firefighter and he says the fire board has been saving the money and "rolling it over in CDs." Kirk says the department doesn't "owe a penny" on the truck. The department received the vehicle this month and firefighters took a photo around their new truck on Friday.
The mayor says the department has fish and chicken fries as fundraisers and gets annual tax money from townships.
The truck was manufactured by Toyne Inc. of Breda.
Fire chief June Anne Gaeta says the department averages 40 runs each year.
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Information from: Muscatine Journal, http://www.muscatinejournal.com
Copyright 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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Permalink Reply by Olivia Jones on
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Good for them, sure they may be a small department and sure it may have taken a really ling time but there are some lessons to be learned here. They didnt put their department into debt by financing a new rig, they didnt burden their community with the cost, and it nice to know someone else paid attention when they used to have a local bank go into the elementary schools and you (ok me) started your first savings account where you maybe only started it with .25 but it tried to teach you to save and live within your means.
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