From storms to blazes to parades, this firefighter on wheels served community for much of a century
ABOVE: Old Betsy was new to Boca Raton in 1926 when the station was at Old Town Hall. Photo provided by the Boca Raton Historical Society
BELOW: Bets
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Raul Travieso Jr., founder of the Boca Raton Pickleball Club. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Steve Plunkett
Raul Travieso Jr. may well be Boca Raton’s Mr. Pickleball.
The retired assistant fire chief and Boca High graduate is also a card-carrying “D
Boca Raton Fire Department’s Captain Ray Lintner describes a few of the firefighting tools found on a firetruck at Fire Station 3 at 100 S. Ocean Blvd. His tour was part of the department’s city-wide open house May 12. The department has 207 certi
