Montco Firefighters Ready Trappe Fire Engine For Chief Sisca's Funeral

LOWER PROVIDENCE, PA — Firefighters with the Lower Providence Fire Department and some neighboring agencies have volunteered to help prepare a fire engine belonging to Trappe Fire Co. for Saturday's funeral for Trappe Fire Chief Branden Sisca, who died early last week while working in his day job as a Pennsylvania state trooper.

The Lower Providence Fire Department said in a Tuesday Facebook post that volunteers have been hard at work since Saturday degreasing, cleaning, polishing and waxing Engine 77, which it recently took in to allow Trappe firefighters the continued time to grieve Sisca's loss.

Sisca, the chief of the volunteer Trappe Fire Company No. 1 in central Montgomery County, died last week while trying to help a pedestrian on Interstate 95 in Philadelphia.

Sisca, who only recently began his career as a Pennsylvania state trooper, died alongside fellow Trooper Martin F. Mack, III, 33, of Bucks County.

Sisca will be laid to rest this Saturday following a public funeral at Perkiomen Valley High School in Montgomery County.

Meanwhile, the firefighters in both Lower Providence and neighboring Upper Providenc, as well as some other area agencies, said they have put in more than 150 man-hours thus far working to ensure Engine 77 is presentable for this weekend's funeral.

"Chief Sisca would be proud to see how beautiful this truck looks!" the Lower Providence Fire Department stated in its Facebook post.

The department said that Engine 77 is a relatively old truck, dating back to the early 2000s, and that it was in need of some TLC.

The goal of taking in the fire truck, the department said, was to allow the volunteers over at Trappe the time to "continue to grieve without the burdens of having to ready a truck as well."

More coverage on Sisca's death can be found here.