Fire Truck Joyride Leaves City With Choice - Fix $650K Wreck Or Buy New Truck

January 5, 2007 Texas - A joyride in a $650,000 fire truck Tuesday has moved the Beaumont Fire Department to re-evaluate procedures to prevent future thefts. Phillip Sims, 17 and charged with first-degree felony theft, was being held in the Jefferson County Correctional Facility Thursday with bond set at $75,000, said Crystal Holmes, Beaumont Police Department spokeswoman. Sims is accused of taking the truck Tuesday morning while firefighters were inside an apartment complex responding to an electrical ...