The Sandusky Community Fire Department has signed contract papers and purchased a 100-foot aerial platform ladder truck. The apparatus, with a chassis from 2009 and ladder attachment from 2013, was repossessed from a fire department in Pennsylvania.
Documents were signed Tuesday February 20th at a Sandusky Community Fire Association meeting.
Chief Todd Hillman said the department learned of the truck through a finance company while paying off a previous loan and were able to work out a deal to pay the required $535,000 for the apparatus. The Pennsylvania fire department that originally bought the truck is still on the hook for the other half of the truck, making payments until 2035.