It's crazy, how I don't even have a gig doing fire and emergency vehicles - and yet for years they have been my favorite thing to photograph. I spotted this truck resting quietly in a corner of the Ocean City convention center during the annual Maryland Firefighters Convention. It wasn't front and center as were the new pieces of gleaming apparatus and the freshly detailed latest rescue rigs, but I'd sure love to know it's story. "1966 C-95 Mack, owned by Sean Space of Baltimore, Maryland" read the plaque fixed on the side just above an antique ax. "Zelienople 3 Fire Department" was painted on the doors in gold, and across the front of the engine as well.
This truck rolled off an assembly line somewhere several years before I was born and I can't begin to image the places it's been and the lives it has saved. I can't help but wonder who the owner is; someone connected to that fire department perhaps; maybe the son of a member from years ago; or could it be just a collector who fell under the spell of this vintage time capsule on wheels?
