Keystone State Relics

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This may be the answer from the Shippensburg FD History site:



On July 10, 1993 at 8:45 a.m. a rescue local was dispatched to Interstate 81 north bound five miles north of exit 10 South Newton Township. Two men were driving a 1951 Pirsch tiller truck from Maryland to Harrisburg for the Pennsylvania Pump Primers muster when the drive shaft broke puncturing hydraulic lines and spraying fluid onto the exhaust header. The truck burst into flames causing the tiller man to jump from the rig. The driver steered the truck into the median strip and over a concrete culvert causing the driver to be ejected from the cab and thrown under the wheels of the tractor. The vehicle came to rest off the road, well involved in flames. The driver S. Eric Russell, 33 was pronounced dead at the scene. The tiller man Jeffrey Jenkins, 27 was taken to Chambersburg Hospital and later transferred to Francis Scott Key Burn Center in Baltimore in serious condition. This truck served at Paxtonia Fire Co., Lower Paxon Twp. Paxtonia purchased the truck from Lancaster City.Responding to the accident was the Penn Twp., South Newton Twp., Newville, Vigilant Hose and West End Fire and Rescue companies.





[quote name='truck1882' date='05 January 2011 - 08:13 PM' timestamp='1294275233' post='418754']

I will bite, the sign on the trailer says a 1948 Pirsch. is it a 1951, 1952, or 1948?

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