By Donna M. Perry
The Sun Journal
LIVERMORE FALLS, Maine — Selectmen voted Monday to allow the fire chief to sell the Fire Department’s 1972 Bean engine and a 1946 Willys open-cab Jeep.
The trucks will be put out to bid, including on the Internet on a truck collectors site.
Chief Gerry Pineau said the department has realigned its equipment. He had proposed selling the two vehicles in July.
Pineau requested that the money from the sales be earmarked for the department in a reserve account to replace what is being sold with newer equipment.
He would like to sell the 1946, four-wheel drive in two pieces — the poly tank and the Jeep, he said. Pineau took the truck out of service because it had no seat belts and an open cab with no roll bar.
The intent is to replace the Jeep with a used four-wheel drive pickup for about $4,000. Firefighters would make the truck so it could go into the woods, Pineau said.
“This is a work truck,” he said.
Selectmen approved the sale of equipment and asked that Town Manager Jim Chaousis research how the money could go back into a Fire Department account.
Resident Ron Chadwick suggested during public session that the fire chief do some research and put a minimum bid on the vehicles. He also suggested the Willys be put out to bid as a whole unit to try and get the best price.
Chaousis was not at the meeting due to attending the International City/County Management Association annual conference out of state.
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