But some of its former customers now have big, shiny fire-engines of their own.
In how many other occupations do you get to take a shiny new fire engine down to the supermarket to pick up the weekly groceries?
Workers wear surgical masks to screen out fibers in the air, and shiny red fire extinguishers hug the walls at regular intervals.
At 9 23 a.m. on Tuesday, a shiny red fire truck pulled up to the Dale Avenue School, a drab tan-brick building by the railroad tracks at the edge of Paterson's faded downtown.
It's like a scene from Pleasantville or The Stepford Wives, complete with white picket fences, shiny red fire hydrants, and meticulously groomed gardens.
A shiny 1947 Mack fire truck, parked across from the bar, houses a D.J. booth.
You avoid pits of fire and grab shiny orbs of goodness to get points.
Right now the most likely place in New York City to see a young Chinese woman in a wedding dress — her lips painted the shiny red of a toy fire engine, her shoulders bare and quivering in the cold — is Central Park.
