Retired ambulances are getting a new purpose thanks to the efforts of members of Clay County Fire Rescue.
Rather than scrap or sell its outdated ambulances, CCFR is revamping them as brush trucks, designed to fight wildfires in challenging terrain.
Some of their recent brush trucks were surplus from other agencies, with several being 30 or more years old. Instead of spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy new ones, some of CCFR’s members decided to get creative.
“The idea for using the retired ambulances for brush trucks was, we were trying to figure out what is the best option for the county in cost and for things that we already had,” said Lieutenant Jack Miller…