The Town of Sheboygan Volunteer Fire Department responded just after 5 p.m. Thursday to Aurora’s Sheboygan Memorial Medical Center. The call? To say hello to former chief Ken Gumm.
Gumm, who had spent nearly six decades with the department, is battling cancer. And because of coronavirus restrictions, friends and family aren’t allowed to visit. So the department decided to bring its ladder truck to bring not only firefighters, but family to his window.
"He’s got cancer throughout his whole body," said Char Gumm, Ken’s wife. "So he doesn’t have much time left, and this summer he’d be with the fire department for 60 years as a volunteer, so yeah he's done a great service to his community."