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WAREHAM, Mass. — A Massachusetts man said he was raking his yard when he came across a long-sought item: a wedding ring lost by a firefighter during a blaze 11 years ago.
Bruce Treadwell of Wareham said he initially thought the ring he found recently was a toy, or belonged to a family member, but he soon remembered the years-long search for the wedding ring lost outside his home by Wareham Fire Chief Robert McDuffy, WHDH-TV, Boston, reported Monday.
“When I got on the phone with him he was so excited,” Treadwell’s wife, Judith, said of McDuffy.
McDuffy said he and his wife of 25 years were delighted to have the ring back.
“Sure enough as soon as I got there, it was my ring,” McDuffy said. “I was in disbelief because 10 years, it was in the ground.”
The Treadwells and McDuffy said they searched for years.
“We looked for it for years and years and years. I kept looking, every time I’d rake the lawn or mow the lawn, we kept looking for it,” Bruce Treadwell said.
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