Mesquite Firefighters 1944 American LaFrance Ladder Truck

Mesquite Firefighters 1944 American LaFrance Ladder Truck Former Mesquite Firefighters Association L-1518, 1944 American LaFrance 100 ft. Ladder Truck. The Truck has been donated to Mesquite ISD's Vanguard High School.

In 1944, Washington D.C. Fire Department purchased a new 600 series
American LaFrance (ALF), open top, tiller ladder truck with a 100 foot steel
ladder. It was assigned as Truck Company No. 1 to protect our Nation's capitol
during the end of World War II. DCFD maintained this unit as front line for 12
years and then in 1959 used as a trade-in to buy a new aerial truck. In 1959 the City of Mesqui

te bought the truck at auction for $5000. It served the City from 1959 to 1977. It was sold at auction and went to
Lamesa to be used in parades and as an eye grabber for a store. In 2003 the truck was rediscovered by members of the
Mesquite Fire Fighters Association, the "boot" was passed and the truck was
purchased by the MFFA Local 1518 for $6000. After 9 years of hard work the '44 ALF once again drove in prominence in the
annual Mesquite Rodeo Parade on March 31, 2012.

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