SOUTH HAVEN, MI — If you’ve ever wanted to purchase a fire truck, now might be your chance.

South Haven Area Emergency Services is auctioning off one of the first two trucks the department purchased after SHAES was established in 1996.

The department is selling a 1998 Spencer Mfg. pumper tanker with just 30,000 miles on it. The 26-foot, FL-80 freightliner features an 8.3-liter Cummins engine, 1,800-gallon poly water tank and a Hale 1,250 gallon-per-minute pump.

It even features a painted Yosemite Sam, the fire department’s mascot, on its side.

The online auction is live now and open to the public at municibid.com . It ends at 3:26 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 9. All proceeds will go back into the department’s capital purchase fund and be put toward a new apparatus, as well as some EMS eq

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