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In the interest of speed and timeliness, this story is fed directly from the Associated Press newswire and may contain spelling or grammatical errors.
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LA firefighter proposes to girlfriend using firetruck ladder
Thursday June 19, 2003
LOS ANGELES (AP) A 26-year-old firefighter, his heart aflame
with love, used a 100-foot aerial ladder to propose marriage to his
23-year-old girlfriend.
``I want to spend the rest of my life with you,'' Lee Castillo
told Megan Porco. ``I love you. Will you marry me?''
Castillo, with the Fire Department two years, climbed to the
second floor patio of a Sherman Oaks restaurant Wednesday, getting
a lift from a hook-and-ladder firetruck. He brought along a diamond
ring and a dozen red roses.
Porco was having lunch with her parents when Castillo suddenly
appeared in his dress uniform.
``I wanted to make it special for her,'' Castillo said.
Castillo was on a day off, but fellow on-duty firefighters from
Station 88 stopped at the restaurant while on routine patrol of the
neighborhood, said city fire spokesman Brian Humphrey.
(Copyright 2003 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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