As a kid growing up in Chicago, Bill D’Agostino was fascinated by fire trucks. His first ride in one sealed his career choice.
“That’s when I was bit by the bug,” D’Agostino said.
Now, after 36 years with the Burnsville Fire Department, the longtime fire captain is retiring the end of February. “I didn’t understand the impact I had on this individual’s life,” he said. In 2004 Bill answered a different kind of service call. A first grade boy from Idaho was in town while on summer vacation seeing his grandmother. Because he had a fascination with fire trucks, his mother took him to the Burnsville fire station nearby.
Like the sign out front reads: Visitors welcome!