Paris, Tenn.–The 1927 American LaFrance fire engine that used to belong to the Paris Fire Department has arrived back home.
The historic fire truck arrived Friday morning on the back of a trailer hauled by Joe Jackson of the Walt Flowers Co. of Springville, who drove it all the way back to Paris from Oregon.
Henry Co. Historical Society President David Webb drove the fire engine off the trailer and into a parking space at Fire Station 2 on Tyson Ave. in Paris, where it will remain the rest of Friday so that the public can view it.
Friday afternoon, the engine will be taken inside the fire station and not driven any further until insurance is secured. The Henry County Historical Society will schedule some dates soon at which the general public can view the apparatus and welcome it back home.
Webb said the City of Paris owned the fire engine from 1928 until 1964. The local Historical Society located the fire engine at a Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue fire station in Wilsonville, Oregon, near Portland. TVF&R donated the apparatus to the Henry County Historical Society which is planning to repair and restore it to promote Paris and Henry County and use it for community events.
Photo by Shannon McFarlin
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