Virginia Department Donates Tower To Kentucky Department

    Oct. 11, 2004
    Firefighters from the eastern Kentucky company drove eight hours to pick up the 25-year-old vehicle.
    Scott Mason/The Winchester Star
    Bert Ashber (left), a deputy chief with the Leatherwood Fire and Rescue Company of eastern Kentucky, inspects the nozzle of Tower 2, a bucket truck donated to his company Monday by the Rouss Volunteer Fire and Rescue Company in Winchester. Joining Ashber for one last look at the 25-year-old vehicle is Rouss Deputy Chief Cliff Montgomery.
    Bert Ashber (left), a deputy chief with the Leatherwood Fire and Rescue Company of eastern Kentucky, inspects the nozzle of Tower 2, a bucket truck donated to his company Monday by the Rouss Volunteer Fire and Rescue Company in Winchester. Joining Ashber for one last look at the 25-year-old vehicle is Rouss Deputy Chief Cliff Montgomery.
    Free to good home: one (1) bucket truck. 25+ years experience serving the citizens of Winchester and nearby. Looks good, runs great. Slightly rusty.

    The Leatherwood Fire and Rescue Company took it, rust and all.

    Firefighters from the eastern Kentucky company drove eight hours to Winchester Monday afternoon to pick up the old vehicle from wistful members of the Rouss Volunteer Fire and Rescue Company.

    Though the vehicle had scarcely been used since Rouss bought a ladder truck 18 months ago, Deputy Chief Cliff Montgomery could not get his mind off it all afternoon.

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