PHOTOS: Baileys Harbor firefighters celebrated homecoming recently – for the first fire truck the department ever had.
For decades, Florian II and Blue Ox owners Joe and Jerry Kwaterski displayed a retired Baileys Harbor fire truck outside their supper club all summer for guests and visitors to see. For years, they also drove it in parades, used it for a wedding-party backdrop and drove it to haul a spirited, partying group via ferry to Door County League baseball games on Washington Island.
Early this month, the Kwaterskis drove the 1935 Peter Pirsch to the fire station and signed over the title.
No tax dollars will go to the cost, and the department will seek grants, donations and any other revenue streams to restore the department’s first truck, said fire chief Brian Zak, and Bill Hartman, firefighter and Baileys Harbor Fire Association historian.