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Retired Struthers firefighter Michael Patrick, who currently serves as president of Struthers City Council, talks about the engine in his 1943 Mack Model L80 firetruck. Patrick says the model was the second motorized firetruck the city department ever had.
STRUTHERS If you regularly drive on a portion of state Route 616, you probably have been seeing red something for which you can thank Mike Patrick.
“It was the second motorized firetruck Struthers ever had,” Patrick, city council president, said Monday about the 1943 Mack pumper L-80 model he bought about 16 years ago from Donald Clemente, a retired Struthers firefighter.