“For years, the gravel parking lot at the Fire District 3 station on French Road has been a magnet for drivers who enjoy a good spin on loose gravel.Last Thursday night, an unknown driver with a penchant for spinning doughnuts tore around in enough 360s on the firehouse parking lot to send rocks and gravel flying through three windows, through siding, and through the paint job on a $150,000 fire engine. According to Fire District 3 Captain Mike Cotton, the joyride cost the district hundreds of dollars in repair costs for the windows and siding. District personnel have not yet decided whether the paint chips on the fire engine will be repaired. Cotton said mostly teenage drivers have done this sort of thing regularly in the past. However, he said, none of those previous incidents did the kind of intentional damage evident in the latest incident.This is the first time the whole side of the building was sprayed with rocks, he said. The damage was so great, Cotton said, that at first the district personnel who discovered the broken windows and damaged siding thought the vandalism had been done with a gun.FD 3 has no plans to pave the parking lot at the fire hall, but will spend thousands of dollars in taxpayer money to do it if incidents like this continue. Both the district and the Island County Sheriff’s Office encourage anyone with information about the vandals to pass it along. The sheriff’s office can be reached at 321-5111. “