apparatus & crime firegeezer on 24 Jul 2008 04:59 pm
Fire Truck Stolen In Connecticut
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CONNECTICUT STATE POLICE WERE CALLED EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING for a fire engine theft from the Jewitt City Volunteer Fire Dept.
The theft occurred shortly after midnight, but while the police were searching the neighborhoods in the area they found the engine abandoned behind a business in nearby Canterbury. It was undamaged.
They continued searching the area and came across a suspicious individual walking nearby. After talking to him, he admitted to breaking into the fire station and stealing the tanker truck and taking it for a “joy ride,” state police said.
Update: 9:30 pm
It was a volunteer FF that spotted the fire engine going up the highway with lights and siren going and he called the fire chief to confirm that there wasn’t a fire response at the time. Then it was reported to PD.
Police say that the thief is a teenager who is a former fire cadet. He is known to have a mental problem.
WFSB Ch. 3, Hartford has filed this video report:
