D.C. Attorney General Peter Nickles said Friday that the donation of a firetruck and ambulance to a beach town in the Dominican Republic met all of the city’s rules for the disposal of surplus property, but both vehicles are back in the District to “assure that this transaction raises no further public concerns.”

The donation was “legal and totally proper” and “in the service of important and legitimate public purposes,” Nickles wrote in a three-page statement.

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