Ultimate Fan 'Rescue Rob' Takes Engine 7 Tailgating
By Jeff Todd
FORT COLLINS, Colo. (CBS4)- He's a firefighter who truly bleeds orange and blue and now he's got the ride to prove it.
"Can I get your picture please?" a passing-by fan asks. They ask a lot around the bright orange fire truck with a blue stripe and both over-sized Denver Broncos logos on it.
"This is a 1976 ford fire engine. It's actually Broncos Country Engine 7," said Robert Garner, a firefighter with Poudre Fire Authority.
On game days he's known as Rescue Rob, "All fire engines have a number associated with them and John Elway is the greatest Bronco of all time so it couldn't have been any other number."
Rescue Rob has been a season ticket holder and dressing up as a firefighter for more than six years, but he was missing a rig to get him to the games.
"I've got grills and chairs up there. I've got coolers," he says as he shows us the re-purposed compartments on the truck.
Rescue Rob will be inducted into the Pro Football Ultimate Fan Association Hall of Fame in August in Canton, Ohio. But Engine 7 will not be making the trip.
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Jeff Todd joined the CBS4 team in 2011 covering the Western Slope in the Mountain Newsroom. Since 2015 he's been working across the Front Range in the Denver Headquarters. Follow him on Twitter @CBS4Jeff.