SEQUIM — Bill Littlejohn said his donation was worth $10,000, but Clallam County Sheriff Bill Benedict doesn’t think so.
“He’s being very modest,” Benedict said of Littlejohn, who gave the Sheriff’s Department Search and Rescue Team a free ambulance this week.
Littlejohn “put about $12,000 into it just a few months ago,” Benedict said of the eight-year-old ambulance.
“There are brand-new tires on it. Everything is good to go.”
Littlejohn, owner of Olympic Ambulance, Sherwood Assisted Living and a handful of other businesses in Sequim, said his ambulance company buys about four new vehicles every year.
“We try to find good homes for the used ones,” he said, adding that over the past several years the company has donated ambulances to Clallam County and to Food for the Poor, a charity that sends them to Central America.
Benedict wasn’t expecting a gift this year, however.
“It took us by surprise,” he said.
“Bill has been really kind.”
