Retired Mont. firefighter preserves fire department history
Article Excerpt: "...Retired Kalispell firefighter Alan “Gus” Gustafson has spent decades preserving artifacts, including a 1925 American LaFrance pumper he once rode...Screaming down city streets on the back of the open-air vehicle was a thrill, he said. You just had to watch out if you were on the engine’s rear end.
“As a tailboard man, you stood in the back — on the tailboard — and hung on for dear life,” Gustafson said. “If you hit a bump, the engine didn’t have much suspension. You had to really be hanging on.”"
Resource: www.firerescue1.com
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