On August 28, 1974 shortly before noon the Shippensburg Civil Defense room alerted firemen to a fire truck fire on Rt. 174 in the area of the Interstate 81 overpass. Firemen arrived to find the chassis of the Vigilant Hose Company Station 2's 1956 Dodge tanker well involved. The tanker was traveling towards Walnut Bottom when the drive shaft broke and punctured the gas tank setting the rig on fire. The driver Albert Grove was treated at the Shippensburg Medical Clinic and sent home. The chassis was destroyed and the rig was never fixed but replaced with an older model. The Vigilant Hose Company answered the alarm. The CV ambulance answered three calls for the day.
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Vigilant Tanker Burns On Rt. 174
On August 28, 1974 shortly before noon the Shippensburg Civil Defense room alerted firemen to a fire truck fire on Rt. 174 in the area of the Interstate 81 overpass. Firemen arrived to find the chassis of the Vigilant Hose Company Station 2's 1956 Dodge tanker well involved. The tanker was traveling towards Walnut Bottom when the drive shaft broke and punctured the gas tank setting the rig on fire. The driver Albert Grove was treated at the Shippensburg Medical Clinic and sent home. The chassis was destroyed and the rig was never fixed but replaced with an older model. The Vigilant Hose Company answered the alarm. The CV ambulance answered three calls for the day.
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No comments can be made anonymous, you need not sign in but you must sign a name or they will be deleted. This is just to seperate fact from fiction and keep it from being anything like whacker fest pa fire.
I am sorry to add the word verification but recently 88 of my post were spammed in one night. I do not have the time to correct that many post again, so this will eliminate the bullshit.
I can remember this one. We were coming back to town from Leesburg.
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