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[Mark V. Carr]

We shot a couple of nice looking generic orange and white "boxes" in Gatlinburg too but I won't bore you with those unless'ins you want 'em. We mosied on to the downtown station in Gatlinburg where we were met with a good attitude by the boss (he told the firefighter to help us out with what we wanted, then left) but a complete lack of enthusiasm by a Firefighter/Paramedic A. Quillims (or something like that). First he told us that he couldn't move the ambulance because he couldn't park it in front of a fire truck. Guess he didn't see the other ambulance sitting outside directly in front of the ladder truck. Then he said that there was a fuel shortage and the department didn't want them running the rigs except for emergencies so he couldn't move anything out for us. Me, being one not to give in too easily, told him I'd heard that story before but that we'd just come from the other station where they'd just pulled everything we wanted out and posed it nicely for us. So, he gave in and pulled one truck, the engine, out. I really wanted the ladder but that was the one that the ambulance was parked in front of and he wouldn't think of going out of his way to move it. So, enough of my sob story, thank you to everyone else at Gatlinburg for your help to a couple of visiting brothers.



The engine is a 1999 Pierce Saber 1250/1000 Pumper as Engine 1 #10517.



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