Today was just a great day as we traveled up to Laurens County to take possession of the newest addition to our Team’s fire trucks, a 1989 CF600 Mack. This truck was the very last CF600 model Mack ever purchased by the FDNY. It originally was stationed on Staten Island before going into their surplus fleet before the World Trade Center attack. Afterwards, due to a shortage of apparatus created by the WTC tragedy, it was brought out of the surplus fleet and assigned to Station 7 in Manhattan. It continued to serve until it was retired and purchased by Chief Robert Plaxico of the Joanna Fire Department here in Laurens County, South Carolina. The Joanna Fire Department restored it to service and used it as a frontline truck until about a year ago.
This truck joins our other trucks , “Big John”, our 1969 CF600 Mack, donated to our Team by the Old Fort Fire Department, the “Road Runner”, our 1976 CF600 Mack, donated to our Team by the Santee Circle Fire Department, “ Bullet”, a 1976 American LaFrance Century, owned by Team member Colt Roy, who donates the use of it to our Team, and now, this 1989 CF600 Mack, owned by our Team Leader, David Reindollar, who also will donate the use of it to our Team. We are not disclosing the name of the new truck, quite yet, but stay tuned for more information soon.
This truck has a storied history and one that will continue to live on by service in our Team. It represents so many things for so many people and we hope to respectfully add to that history. Many thanks to our FDNY brothers and Chief Robert Plaxico of the Joanna Fire Department for their love of this truck. We pledge to make you all proud as we extend its’ history of service.
We will be placing it in service for the first time this Friday, April 6th, in support of Charleston Firefighter Local 61 at the Cooper River Kids’ Bridge Run at Hampton Park. Come out and join us and take a look at this new addition to our Team.