PHOTO: The ‘Ladies Fire Truck’ has been a part of Tullibigeal for decades.
A small but determined community group from Tullibigeal in Lachlan Shire are about to achieve the completion of a project to restore a local icon, with plans to celebrate already underway.
Back in the early 1980s, Lachlan Shire Council provided the community with their first ever fire truck, fire engine No. 82, purchased from Lockhart.
Prior to obtaining the Bedford truck, firefighting around the small village was undertaken with privately owned water carts and knap sacks…