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was tasked with the job of making sure the city of Jesup’s infrastructure and public safety was in good working order. It was a diffcult job, and Hubert remains impressed that his father was able to perform all those tasks by himself. “Dad did such a tremendous job with the city and he did it all by himself,” he says. For Tindall, there was no such thing as not taking his job home with him. He had two phones – a personal phone and the fre phone. When the fre phone rang, no matter the time or conditions, it was his responsibility to get to the fre. He had a battery of volunteer frefghters who worked for him, but Tindall was the one responsible for getting the fre truck to the scene. For many years, Jesup didn’t have a fre truck. Tindall pulled fre equipment in a trailer behind a pick-up truck. In 1934, the city began utilizing a Ford pick-

up modifed into a fre truck. Hubert remembers his father driving that Ford pick-up everywhere he went. “That truck had boxes on the side, a ladder on top, and 1,000 feet of hose wound up in the bed. He had to drive it everywhere – if a fre broke out at night, there wasn’t time to drive to the station and get the truck,” says Hubert. About 12 years later, Jesup bought its frst dedicated fre truck – a 1941 Ford that still sits at the fre department to this day.

Sometimes Tindall found himself at odds with his family and the demands of his job. When Hubert was a teenager, Tindall received a fre call one night at an old sawmill on the Altamaha River on the property now owned by Rayonier. The mill was on fre, and Tindall hastily got dressed to go to the fre. Hubert was old enough to go with him, and jumped into that 1941 Ford

BELOW Hubert Littlefeld and his brother, Anton, are pictured with their mother, Nell Griffn Littlefeld, originally from Nashville, Georgia.