PHOTO - Eric Hurst remembers his first time sitting in a particular red firetruck. He was 5 or 6 years old and he was infatuated.
Today, that very same truck is parked in his garage.
“It's amazing,” Hurst, now 32, said. “I can't believe I found it.”
Hurst, public information officer for South Metro Fire Rescue and operations manager of the 9-1-1 dispatch call center, was born and raised in south metro Denver. He grew up attending the Littleton Fire Muster and parade every year, and he frequented the Castlewood Fire Department — which is now South Metro Fire Rescue. His grandpa knew the fire chief and his father took him for visits often.
“I don't think they quite anticipated that I would visit all the time,” Hurst said.
He remembers being immediately drawn to that one red firetruck.
More than two decades later, he saw the truck for sale online on a YouTube channel called The Fast Lane Truck and jumped at the opportunity, for which he paid $13,000. T