New ladder truck arrives in Lewes
The Lewes Fire Department’s brand-new, $1.2 million ladder truck sits outside Station 1 on Savannah Road April 3. The department just received the new truck and will be training firefighters in April.
“It’s been a five-year process – [including] a year of design, figuring out what apparatus would fit well here and serve our community,” said Trevor Feist, one of the Lewes firefighters responsible for the ladder truck project. Feist said they are planning to get the truck in service as of Friday, May 1. It will based at Station 1.
Bill Shull has been covering Lewes for the Cape Gazette since 2023. He comes to the world of print journalism after 40 years in TV news. Bill has worked in his hometown of Philadelphia, as well as Atlanta and Washington, D.C. He came to Lewes in 2014 to help launch WRDE-TV. Bill served as WRDE’s news director for more than eight years, working in Lewes and Milton. He is a 1986 graduate of Penn State University. Bill is an avid aviation and wildlife photographer, and a big Penn State football, Eagles, Phillies and PGA Tour golf fan. Bill, his wife Jill and their rescue cat, Lucky, live in Rehoboth Beach.
