If you’ve ever dreamed of owning your own fire truck, now is your chance.

Aquashicola Fire Company is raffling off its 1989 KME Renegade Fire Engine to help pay for a new tank truck that is expected to arrive next week.

Fire Company President Rory Koons said Coaldale ran a similar fundraising campaign several years ago with great results.

“They had a much more lucrative truck to sell, but we had a chance to do the same thing here,” Koons said. “We never realized it would take off like it did. The response has been fantastic.”

Raffle tickets are $100 each with only 200 being sold. After the 200th ticket sale, or Oct. 23, fire company officials will draw the lucky winner.

Interested parties can visit AquashicolaFire.square.site to purchase tickets.

Sales are off to a steady start with only around 65 of the tickets left.

“I thought maybe we’d sell 50 or so tickets, but it’s blown me away what we’ve done so far,” Larry Arner, fire department member, said.

Ideas from those who have already purchased range from pressure washing to driving it around the farm for fun, Koons said.

“It could be resold, there are plenty of possibilities out there,” he added. “We even had someone from Miami purchase a ticket.”

Aquashicola purchased the firetruck from Citizen’s Fire Company in Weatherly as an interim piece of apparatus that would fill a void while the fire company awaited its new 2024 International 4-Guys Tanker.

“We did the specifications for the new truck in April 2021, but with COVID-19 and the supply chain issues and everything else, it was going to be a couple years until we would get that in,” Koons said. “We wanted to have some protection in the interim. We’ve done that before a couple times while we waited on new equipment.”

The truck runs, drives, and pumps well, according to fire company officials, who have been taking it to events such as the Northampton Community Days to promote ticket sales. On the way to the event, two firefighters used it to give two North Carolina hikers a ride from Palmerton back to the Appalachian Trail.

“It’s in great shape,” Koons said of the truck. “It has a good, strong engine and about 23,000 miles on it, but half of that is pumping mileage. I think it would be hard pressed to have 10,000 road miles.”

The fire company already sold a 2014 tank truck to Polk Township Fire Company.

The raffle winner will be responsible to arrange to have the truck removed from the fire company within two weeks of the notification of winning. It will also pay the transfer fees for the title, but any registration/insurance fees will be the responsibility of the winner.