Members of the Rotary Club of Abbeville and the Abbeville Fire Department with the boat after Wednesday’s meeting.
The Abbeville Rescue boat was brought to a Abbeville Rotary Club meeting recently.
The boat features the logos for the Rotary Club and the Abbeville Fire Department.
After a rain storm earlier this year, Abbeville Firefighter Tony Landry responds to a truck that flipped over on Coulee Kinney Road.
Rotary Club helps Abbeville Fire Department purchase boat
When you think of firefighters arriving at a scene to help, you likely picture them doing so in a truck.
However, frequent heavy rains have created some scenes over the years that are not conducive for trucks. Thanks to some help from the Rotary Club of Abbeville, the Abbeville Fire Department now has a boat.
Abbeville Assistant Fire Chief Kelly Mire told members of the Rotary Club that the idea that the department needed a boat began after the historic flooding in August of 2016.
