Who d’ya know wants to buy a fire truck?
Well, we know someone who’s selling.
The Johnson Creek Fire Department is auctioning a 1989 Pierce Arrow 95-foot Aerial Platform fire truck right now. The funds raised helping the department fund new fire suits, hoses and other equipment required to fight fires and save lives in this town just about halfway between Milwaukee and Madison.
This government auction is up now and open to the public at municibid.com. Bidding ends on Friday, Sept. 27.
The starting bid is $7,000 and there’s no reserve. At the time of writing there were no bids yet on the truck.
According to the JC fire department, the fire truck, “runs, drives well and has 23,575 miles on it.”
The deets: the truck has a 95-foot aerial platform, a 200-gallon water tank, a Waterous 1500 GPM 2-stage pump, an Onan 6K generator, a Detroit 8V92A 12.1-liter diesel engine and Allison HTB 741 automatic transmission.”
While the truck could surely be useful to anyone with a construction company, tree-care business or landscaping outfit, the truck could also be a godsend for a volunteer fire department.
Let’s also not ignore the fact that anyone could buy it and just have the coolest ride in town.
Let the bidding begin!
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he lived until he was 17, Bobby received his BA-Mass Communications from UWM in 1989 and has lived in Walker's Point, Bay View, Enderis Park, South Milwaukee and on the East Side.
He has published three non-fiction books in Italy – including one about an event in Milwaukee history, which was published in the U.S. in autumn 2010. Four more books, all about Milwaukee, have been published by The History Press.
With his most recent band, The Yell Leaders, Bobby released four LPs and had a songs featured in episodes of TV's "Party of Five" and "Dawson's Creek," and films in Japan, South America and the U.S. The Yell Leaders were named the best unsigned band in their region by VH-1 as part of its Rock Across America 1998 Tour. Most recently, the band contributed tracks to a UK vinyl/CD tribute to the Redskins and collaborated on a track with Italian novelist Enrico Remmert.
He's produced three installments of the "OMCD" series of local music compilations for OnMilwaukee.com and in 2007 produced a CD of Italian music and poetry.
In 2005, he was awarded the City of Asti's (Italy) Journalism Prize for his work focusing on that area. He has also won awards from the Milwaukee Press Club.
He has be heard on 88Nine Radio Milwaukee talking about his "Urban Spelunking" series of stories, in that station's most popular podcast.
