Where's the armored car?

Discussing what happened to the armored vehicle purchased by the fire dept.

It has been a curiosity of ours for some time, whatever happened to the armored vehicle purchased by the Fire Chief at an ATL Police Department auction a few years back? (circa 2019) We remembered it was well used, and not necessarily a “looker”, but still a questionable purchase for a fire department to make. It raised the question of whether this was an actual need of the fire department, or whether it was the Fire Chief playing with the tax payers money. It is certain, the vehicle has not seen one second of service usage since purchased, which raises suspicion even more. We remember vaguely the justifiable claim was situational with a very low chance of occurrence. It involved something about a fire at the local college, and the use of the vehicle to rescue students from it. Now what additional functionality the vehicle would bring to the situation is uncertain. Fireman don’t operate a towing service and there would be no reason for the fire to be on the ground itself, never mind driving over that flaming debris.

We are no professionals on the needs of the fire service, but it is common knowledge law enforcement is having a hard enough time acquiring armored vehicles for swat teams, and it is not a common piece of equipment you here about fire departments filling out a requisitions for. It would be safe to bet, we were the only fire department of similar size in the area to have one. Which makes it appear more and more as if the armored vehicle was a personal interest for the Fire Chief to buy into with county resources.

After performing several casual searches for the vehicle, we have yet to discover it’s location. It is not at the fire station, which is where it would need to be in case there were bank robbers with flame throwers. From visual inspection of the county equipment yard, it doesn’t appear to be there either. Which would be the other reasonable location for it. So, what happened to it?