NORTH WILDWOOD – In August, the Dennis Volunteer Fire Company dispatched a ladder truck to help a cat out of a tree in Belleplain.
Not to be outdone, on Sunday, Sept. 7, the North Wildwood Fire Department’s Ladder Company 2/ D Platoon rescued a wedding ring.
The department received a call from a resident who had accidentally discarded her wedding ring, engagement ring and matching earrings into the trash chute at her condo, sending the jewelry down to the building’s compactor.
The North Wildwood crew simply went to work and dug through all of the building’s trash bags at the bottom of the trash chute.
They eventually found all of the pieces of jewelry and returned them to the grateful owner.
Some readers wondered why a person would think to call the Fire Department in such an event. The author responded that the rings went down a trash chute; the Fire Department has ladders; chutes and ladders go together like love and marriage…
– Christopher South
