A volunteer fireman is facing driving under the influence charges in connection with an incident that ended with a damaged fire truck, a crash into a telephone pole and a small geyser of water from a fire hydrant.
At 11:51 a.m. Saturday, Sharon police officers M. Paul Lehman and Adam Zazado were dispatched to South Dock and Budd streets in response to a call regarding a disabled West Middlesex Volunteer Fire Department fire truck.
A caller reported that the driver had exited the vehicle and was asking for someone to “give him a lift.”
When the officers arrived at the scene, they saw the damaged truck, a 2016 Ford F550, in the middle of the intersection.
Zazado reported seeing a man, later identified as Curtis Allen Cottrill, 30, of 65 W. Walnut St., West Middlesex, walking down the hill at Budd Street and Walnut Avenue.