Posted on 07/23/2023 12:25:09 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
WELLBORN, Fla. (WFLA) — A Florida woman was accused of stealing a fire truck and impersonating a firefighter earlier this month.
The Suwannee County Sheriff’s Office said Belinda Delores Waugh, 44, allegedly took off with a fire truck on July 15 after spending the night at the Wellborn Volunteer Fire Department station.
When the fire chief visited the station to respond to a call, he discovered the truck was gone. The sheriff’s office said he received a phone call from Waugh stating the fire truck ran out of gas in Live Oak, which is about 10 miles away from Wellborn.
After deputies tracked down Waugh and the truck, she allegedly claimed to be a volunteer firefighter with Suwannee County. Deputies determined she was not on the official roster and was not authorized to use a fire truck.
Waugh was booked into the Suwannee County Jail on charges of grand theft and fraud – impersonating a firefighter.
All of the drugs are a hell of a drug.
I see what you did there
The downside of living in Florida... when you hear a nutty story that the country is going to be laughing about - you know it’s going to be from Florida.
Macho Woman
She was a Ladder Day Saint.
The engine I drove got 3.4mpg. The quint and ladders got less. Me thinks she did some joyriding and was trying to get it back to the station and misjudged remaining fuel.
Someone like Rockford could have helped get a good use on like he did for “the mayor’s committee from Deer Lick Falls.”
I do communications work for a lot of rural fire departments. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve gone to work on a truck and found the battery dead.
How can a fire truck have a dead battery?
Some people join the fire department and never go on any calls, stick around long enough to get the tattoo and then disappear.
I think she wanted to help fight forest fires, because she fell out of the ugly tree.
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