Palestine welcomes new fire truck to fire fleet
15 Jul 2020
Out with the old, in with the new. The Palestine Fire Department hosted a “Push-in Ceremony” for its new ladder truck.
City administrators, fire department personnel and community members joined together to celebrate the delivery of the newest edition to the fleet.
For the special ceremony, congratulatory words were spoken, a local minister blessed the truck and then the firemen put the truck in neutral and pushed the vehicle into the truck bay.
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