Medicine Bow turns down free truck

The Medicine Bow Town Council decided not to accept the free fire truck offered from the Carbon County Commission Monday evening.

Council members had a special meeting to discuss whether or not they would accept a 1990 Pierce Pumper firetruck, which the Carbon County Commission agreed to offer the town of Medicine Bow for free. The offered truck was one of the county’s older trucks from Hanna.

Commission members were not present at the meeting, which took place at Medicine Bow Community Hall. As part of this fiscal year’s budget cuts in Carbon County, county commissioners and Carbon County Fir...