In Memory of Terrance Williams and Montana Ferguson – “In Honor of their Lives”

With Eagles Wings, founded as a result of Cat 5, Hurricane Floyd in 1999, and with many numerous responses since to help support the entire Bahamas,  a series of “coincidences” helped uncover this latest need.  In the summer of 2025, Eagles Wings shipped over about $100,000 in blue roof tarps to distribute to the Pastor’s Council on Abaco.  As a result of that donation, meant to pre-position rapidly necessary roof tarps, the Pastor’s Council invited Scott Lewis over to a luncheon in order to honor Eagles Wings for its latest donation.  

            Luncheon with Pastor’s Council in Cedar Harbor

 

While in Abaco, Scott met with the North Abaco Island Administrator and asked if there were any other critical needs.  Mr. Stephen Wilson recounted how a recent brush fire had damaged a water resources structure in North Abaco because the fire engine Eagles Wings donated to Cooperstown was almost one hour away from where the brush fire was.  Scott queried other locals and returned home to search for an appropriate fire engine.  Working with a senior West Palm Beach Public Safety Officer, they obtained a pristine 1989 Ward La Fance fire engine, complete with air packs, bunker gear, and a large quantity of hose and fittings.  Best of all was the fact that this fire engine came from a Pittsburg volunteer fire department and its shell is made of stainless steel – which is best of all to resist rusting away. The engine only had just over 30,000 miles!!

   

Donations, led by the Ilsa Baby Foundation, were secured as arrangements were being made in North Abaco to select a location for another fire station in addition to the one funded by Eagles Wings in Cooperstown following Hurricane Dorian.  A location next to the police station was approved and locals now are doing their own fundraising to build that new station.

 

While these activities were proceeding, a 12-year-old boy, spending the night at a friend’s house in Crown Haven, passed away in a house fire.  The Cooperstown fire engine did make it there – but it was almost one hour away.  That unfortunate incident helped with fundraising. Then, more recently, a classmate of that boy’s was killed in a head on car crash on the Abaco Highway.  That unfortunate occurrence led Scott and his West Palm  connections to search out and buy a set of “Jaws of Life” to add to the fire engine.

 

 

Finally, on January 5, 2026, Scott delivered the engine to the Port of Palm Beach.  He took some photos of the unit and forwarded them to the key people in North Abaco who had helped spearhead the effort – starting with Therrece Bootle Bethel.  When she received the photos, she and her associates celebrated the news by sharing it with the Nassau Tribune.  One day later, a full page feature story appeared, including interviews with both mothers who had lost the two boys.  That article already is circulating on Facebook and locals are celebrating the anticipated arrival in mid January.