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244 engines
Manteca Fire Engine 244 is an American LaFrance that has been in frontline service since 2007 — five years beyond when it should have been relegated to reserve engine status
My first lesson in a community’s failure to have a frank discussion about how government works — and by extension doesn’t work — was highly personal. It was 1965. I was 9 years old at the time. The City of Lincoln had a council that the majority took pride in the fact they never raised taxes..