By Dustin Racioppi
The Daily Record
POINT PLEASANT, N.J. — In its previous life, the Big Blue Rig was not actually blue but white with orange trim, a Creamsicle-colored box on wheels filled with IV bags, defibrillators, two stretchers and, if out on an emergency call, any number of volunteers of the Point Pleasant Boro First Aid Squad.
When its days of service to the borough were numbered and town leadership was readying to unload the 1996 Ford E-Series ambulance from the fleet in favor of a newer model, one of the volunteers who rode on many of those 911 calls, Dan Gaudette, elbowed in and said he was part of a group of potential buyers known as The Giants of Tailgating.
The group, a scattered sextet of die-hard Giants fans, and whose members, all season-ticket holders, had been looking for a replacement for the cramped GMC Yukon that served as their base of tailgating operations, pooled its financial resources and took ownership of the ambulance in October 2010.
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