GOLF MANOR — Next week, the Golf Manor Fire Department was to pick up its new pumper from Wisconsin, ending a year-long wait for the much-needed fire truck.

        The truck is built. Only the lettering was left to be done by Seagrave, its manufacturer.

        But now it looks like those gold leaf letters won't read Golf Manor, but NYFD.

        “We got a call from the (Seagrave) plant,” said Assistant Fire Chief Jim Puthoff. “They explained that the assistant fire chief in New York City in charge of purchasing called to ask if they had anything they could supply to New York since so many trucks were destroyed. They called us, and anybody else, who had ordered newly completed fire trucks.”

        New York uses only Seagrave trucks.

        Golf Manor quickly gave the OK. Fire Chief Greg Ballman said the decision was easy.

        “This may sound corny, but we are at war,” Chief Ballman said. “Those guys in New York are on the front line. They need the truck worse than we do.”

        The $299,740 pumper was to replace a 31-year-old pumper the department has for sale. If that is sold, the Deer Park-Silverton Fire Department has offered Golf Manor the use of a 1974 pumper until Seagrave can build another truck.

        “They are going to crank up the assembly line and have promised us a new truck in six months,” Chief Ballman said.

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