Update from FireTruckBlog.com: Detroit Accepts Citizen's 28-Year-Old Tower Ladder

A week after Glenn Usdin's FireTruckBlog.com told the story of the man who couldn't seem to give away his fire truck to the Detroit Fire Department, there's an update.

The department's mechanic and Detroit's fire commissioner inspected  Joe Rippolone's 1983, tower ladder. Commissioner Donald Austin has said it is a donation worth accepting.

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