Fire Engine Heist: When Saving Lives Meets a Stolen Ride!

In a twist that sounds straight out of a movie, Everett Fire Chief Dave DeMarco announced that the department experienced a robbery of epic proportions—someone stole a fire engine! While responding to a medical emergency, the firefighters parked the 2018 Pierce Enforcer Pumper, leaving it idling with emergency lights flashing. Who knew that a fire truck could become the ultimate getaway vehicle? This isn’t exactly what Chief DeMarco had in mind when he talked about the need for vigilant security in emergency responses!

The theft, which happened on July 18, turned heads in the community and beyond, as it’s the first time in over a century of service that a fire engine was stolen in Everett. You can almost picture the scene: firefighters emerge from the building to find their trusted engine missing, with the brake chock flat on the ground like it just couldn’t handle the excitement. They later learned the engine had collided with a dozen other vehicles. Imagine the chaos when dispatchers started questioning if the stolen fire engine was involved in a crash!

While the Everett Fire Department has scrambled to bolster security measures, they’ve managed to keep services running smoothly with a reserve engine. Chief DeMarco reminded everyone that any name-brand lock would need to be fail-safe, because a fire department can’t afford to have their tools let them down. But really, what’s next on the list? A GPS tracker for their fire engines? It’s a wild world when a fire truck becomes the target of a heist. What do you think—can you believe this really happened?

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