Turnout Gear Stolen from TX Fire Station

March 5, 2019
The eight to 10 sets of gear were taken from the Chapel Hill Volunteer Fire Department's station last month, but officials didn't discover the items missing until recently.

A Texas Fire Department recently had gear stolen from one of its stations.

Eight to 10 sets of turnout gear used mostly for training were taken from the Chapel Hill Volunteer Fire Department's station—an old building is known as the town's first firehouse—some time between Feb. 18 and 22, KETK-TV reports. But the department only just discovered that the sets had been taken.

"We came up one night, last week, and we saw that a window in the back of our one building had plywood on it, got torn off," Chief Dale Peterson told KETK. 

Investigators don't have a motive behind the theft, but the department would like the gear returned, according to the TV station.