RE: Some more shots from the Engine 260 Fire Muster
I will bet it was nice to see history on lined up in the form of fire trucks. How cool to do an annual muster like that. I am sure that you have more pictures and places to put them right now, I am always reluctant to leave without sufficiently having photographed them because I don't know when my next chance will be.
You got some real gems here and I cannot believe what could shape they're in for his oldest they are and the kind of wear and tear that they got. I am in love with that first open backed truck with the almost tractor like front end. It was shortly after that they got a little more fire truck looking.
There's still a lot of places back East that have a volunteer fire department and I'm not quite sure because most of those towns are rich enough to have their own, but have maintained their volunteer status and beefed it up with regular fire companies. As a song of your ending statement with saying the yellow trucks were easier to see at night, it occurred to me that here they are all yellow and for some reason it never even struck me that they were the wrong color. Thank you for another great post and I wish you a most wonderful Monday.
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I do love visiting this event I missed dit the last couple of years so even though i was only there for maybe 45 Minutes i took a ton of photos to make up for the years I missed LOL
I have friend sin CT NY and NJ who are volunteer firefighters, I know for a couple of them the city actually funds the fire trucks and equipment but the members always wanted to keep it Volunteer even thought he city as you say could afford and would fund a permanent fire department
I was always used to red fire trucks so seeing the yellow White and even one blue one is different for me, there is one in CT that I have sene in a parade that is pink in support of Brest Cancer research
Thanks Kindly and wishing you a wonderful Monday as well