The borough of Lawnside doesn’t have any working fire trucks — a decision the local fire chief blames on the mayor and council and says could be dangerous.
All three of the town’s fire trucks are inoperable — one is just sitting there and two are out for repairs.
In a letter sent to the borough’s mayor and council on Dec. 31, borough fire chief Mark Jay accused officials of chronically denying repairs to trucks due to a lack of funding — forcing one of the oldest historically Black all volunteer fire departments to borrow trucks from neighboring towns…