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 Citizen’s Hose Company Annual Parade

 

 

 The annual parade hosted by the Citizen’s Hose Company was held on Friday evening, June 20, 2008. As usual there were many fire departments participating in the annual parade, from Ontario, Wayne, Monroe, Seneca, and Steuben Counties. The parade is held during the annual Carnival hosted by the Citizen’s Hose Company Fire Department of Shortsville, Ontario County, NY.

-Fire News photos submitted by Jeff Ambroz

 


 

Wallington Engine Company Wins

Several Parade Awards

 

 

 The Wallington Engine Company of the Town of Sodus, Wayne County, NY, had quite a weekend for parades and awards the weekend of June 13th, and 14th, 2008. It all began with the parade on Friday night June 13th at the annual Sodus Fire Department Parade, which was also the annual Wayne County Fireman’s County Convention Parade. This year the Sodus Fire Department was the host for the convention, and the annual Sodus Fire Department Carnival, was also run in conjunction with the convention. The fire fighters from Wallington looked really sharp as they passed through the parade route, and wound up winning four awards at the end of the parade.


Wallington wound up winning the first place award for best appearing Fire Department overall, first place award for most men in line, which they had 27 marching along with four of their members also driving the apparatus, bringing the total amount of members participating in the parade to 31, which is not bad considering they have approximately 40 active members. They also won the first place award for Best Appearing Engine, which is their Engine 40 a 1997 RD Murray engine. Their final award for the evening was Best Appearing Tanker, which is their Tanker 22 a 2004 Freightliner RD Murray tanker. They also had their brand new 2008 Freightliner E-One Heavy Rescue 32 in the parade, but it was not eligible to win any awards this year due to the county convention parade rules.


Following a very busy and rewarding night, early on Saturday morning the 14th, eight of the Wallington fire fighters took a five- hour road trip down to Wallington, NJ, for their parade. Wallington, NY and NJ are very tight with one another and quite often will travel to one another’s functions. While the eight were marching in NJ, six other members of the NY Wallington were participating in the local Newark, NY Fire Department parade along with the trucks. The eight who were marching in NJ came home with a special trophy, which was the “Judges Choice Award for the furthest distance traveled”. Wallington also faired well at the Newark parade, and all in all had a great weekend of winning awards to display proudly in their trophy room at the fire station. For more information on the Wallington, NY Fire Department visit their website. The address is: http://www.wallingtonfd.com/


-Fire News photos by Jeff Ambroz


 


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