Farmer Repurposes Retired Fire Engines

WAITSBURG - A true piece of Waitsburg history, the recently retired 1962 Ford Westland fire engine, will stay in the Waitsburg area.

Waitsburg farmer Jerry Baker, age 58, purchased the old engine from the city recently for $500. The en- gine was made surplus and put up for sale by the City of Waitsburg after it purchased a newer 1986 Pierce fire engine for the department.

For Baker, who farms wheat, peas and has cattle on his Wilson Hollow property, this is not his first fire engine - it's his third.

His first engine was an old Mack from the 1950s or 1960s that he purchased years ago. It origi...