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Two Morristown firefighters, Lt. Darrell Hodge and engineer Danny Case (pictured), are in need of funding to help restore Morristown’s first motorized fire engine, a 1916 American LaFrance engine. The truck sat on display for many years at Cherokee Park.

Restoring a relic: Firefighters take on challenge


By Kortney Signor, Tribune Staff Writer  Citizen Tribune
9/8/2010 11:05:16 AM

Two Morristown firefighters are on a quest to restore a relic to its former glory.

Lt. Darrell Hodge and engineer Danny Case, the department’s historian, felt the need to restore the 1916 American LaFrance truck after reading a March 15 article in the Citizen Tribune about the MFD’s first motorized fire engine.

The truck sat on display for many years at Cherokee Park.

According to Case, the truck, which the MFD purchased in June of 1916 from the American-LaFrance...

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