Need a fire engine to fill out the collection, or else make some fire calls in the neighborhood? If that describes you or the department that you belong too, listen up: recommended for auction at the February 23 River Falls Council meeting was a vintage 1989 Ford Fire Engine, or E-7.

The recommended auction sale of the 31-year-old retired equipment comes after the City of River Falls received a replacement last December in Fire Engine 20.

Now taken out of service, Fire Engine 7 has been slated by City staff as being prime auction property, insofar that, “the City monitors the size of the vehicle fleet closely, and standard practice is to sell vehicles that are replaced through auction when they are not able to be traded in,” a memo by River Falls Fire Chief Scott Nelson states.

Because Engine 7 is no longer in compliance with National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) safety specs, it has to go. Or in other words, ‘out with the old, and in with the new.’” Assuming Common Council approval of said resolution, collectors with the cash might want to be on the lookout for a sweet ride, soon to be history.

The resolution authorizing sale lists ‘Auction Associates’ as the company to keep an eye on for the sale.