Thieves and vandals hit the Oklahoma State Firefighters Museum in northeast Oklahoma City this week, stripping metal, prying at doors and even lighting a dumpster on fire, according to museum volunteers and retired firefighters who run the place. The fallout has left the memorial to fallen firefighters dimmed and the people who care for it scrambling to pay for repairs and tighten security.
Museum representatives filed police reports saying unknown suspects pulled copper from the building’s air-conditioning units, removed metal rings from the lights that illuminate the memorial and tried to force open a museum door with a crowbar. Someone also set a small dumpster on the property on fire, an especially bitter touch at a museum dedicated to firefighters. Oklahoma…..