SANFOD, Fla. – Julio Colon was on Wall Street on Sept. 11, and he said he will never forget those moments filled with confusion, commotion and panic.
However, he said after that event, he remained forever grateful toward all first responders. This experience partially inspired him to start his food truck business out of a firetruck in October, he told News 6.
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Now, on the weekends you will find Colon with his daughter Alexa Colon helping out, slinging cheesesteaks and heroes out of a firetruck at a car wash in Sanford.
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The duo will be parked at 1751 West Airport Blvd.
“When he purchased the truck, all of us questioned his intentions, but he quickly envisioned his end product,” Alexa Colon said in a statement.
The Colons said converting the firetruck included installing a stove top, generator and refrigeration.
Julio Colon owns the food truck, The First Responders Catering with Joseph Muniz, and they said they hope to expand via franchising and converting other firetrucks into food trucks.
Meanwhile, Alexa is studying to become a first responder – as she is getting a nursing degree from UCF.
“He is truly a hardworking man and has never stopped striving in order to provide for his family,” Alexa Colon said. “He is a man with many ideas that to most people would be deemed unsuccessful, but he finally was able to fabricate his long thought-out vision
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