Elizabethtown Fire Department donates truck to Stepehensburg

Elizabethtown Fire Chief Mark Malone said the city’s fire department was ready to retire a 2005 pumper and rescue fire truck, and while it was no longer of use to the EFD he told Elizabethtown Mayor Jeff Gregory it could be of use to a Hardin County volunteer fire department.

“I approached the (Hardin County) Chiefs Association, and the Stephensburg Fire Department responded and was interested in that donation,” Malone said.

The EFD formally donated the truck to Stephensburg during a ceremony at the EFD headquarters Wednesday. Malone said the truck fits a need for Stephensburg and still serves a role in E-Town fire response.

“That will give them an operational pumper for the future, and it assists us when we respond with mutual aid into the county,” Malone said.

The city said this is the first such donation E-town has been able to make of this nature, and they were glad to help out another fire department in Hardin County.