“The Old Grey Mare She Ain’t What She Used To Be” is how an old song goes – but then again neither are fire trucks. But that did not stop Prince Edward County Interim Fire Chief Tim Kraemer from seeking to revive a Victorian era tradition of firefighters pushing in equipment to fire halls after being in use. Being pulled by teams of horses, he explained, backing them into narrow berths was difficult and tricky, so the horses were unhitched, the pumpers and any other equipment were hosed down to clean them up and fire crews just got together and pushed them into place. Article content

Inspiration for the ceremony at the Picton Firehall Thursday afternoon was the official commissioning of a new pumper being signalled to communications as now in use. Cost of the truck was more than $630,000

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