Longtime Lebanon fire dog Ginger got 'Last Call' Monday

Lebanon Fire Chief Skip Wood, with Ginger at his side, enters Lebanon Central Station as he prepares to ready trucks for a fire call in January 2015. (Lebanon Voice file photo)

LEBANON - "Ginger," Lebanon Fire's longtime fire dog under former Chief Skip Wood, answered her "Last Call" on Monday, Jan. 2, 2017.

Ginger was born May 19, 2004 and served the department many years.

She always was ready to go any time the tone went off, Wood recalled in a January 2015 interview shortly after announcing his retirement.

Ginger, off the job, relaxing at home with her master, former Fire Chief Skip Wood. (Courtesy photo)

After retiring in 2015, Ginger was diagnosed with a nonoperable cancer in November 2015, but she continued with a normal life until the week before this Christmas when the cancer started to affect her eating and drinking but she didn't appear to be in any pain.

And was still wagging her tail anytime you would talk to her, family members said.