Towers Fire Apparatus

Towers Fire Apparatus Company, Inc. was an American fire apparatus builder located in Freeburg, Illinois, near St. Louis. Founded in 1946 by Eugene R. Towers (a former production manager at Central Fire Truck Corporation in St. Louis), the company was established as a regional manufacturer that delivered easy to use and innovative fire engines in the Midwestern United States. After Eugene's death in 1974, his son Dale R. Towers became president of the company. Later, Dale's brother Gary A. Towers took the reigns of the company. Upon Gary's retirement, Gary's son Brad Towers assumed the role of president. They built pumpers, tankers and rescues on commercial and custom chassis. They stopped building trucks in the late 1990s or early 2000s and acted as a dealer for Spartan. In 2011, they became a Rosenbauer dealer. In 2013, Towers merged with Franco Emergency Solutions to form Sentinel Emergency Solutions; now the Rosenbauer dealer for Missouri and Illinois.
==See also==
Departments operating Towers apparatus
==External links==
*Sentinel Emergency Solutions
*Towers Fire Apparatus Historical Society Facebook group
Category:Defunct American fire apparatus manufacturers