Need ideas for new engine dedication

[EastKyFF]

We will receive our new engine any day. Because our department shares its name with the local elementary school (which sits just yards behind our station), I have thought about involving the kids at school in the dedication.

Anybody done this? Any ideas?

Thanks!

[fire49]

Use the truck being replaced to squirt water onto the new one , passing on it's knowledge to the new one, then let dome of the children help dry it off

Then let more of the children help push the truck into the station, with a little help from the motor


Then have a contest to nickname the new truck, and give the winner a ride and lunch

[PaladinKnight]

We will receive our new engine any day. Because our department shares its name with the local elementary school (which sits just yards behind our station), I have thought about involving the kids at school in the dedication.

Anybody done this? Any ideas?

Thanks!

Years ago we bought a new truck on a lease purchase. We held a contest to come up with a sponsor name on the truck. It was much like a bid, high bidder pledged an amount and won the right to put a name on the truck. Had to be in good taste.

Our bank lease was $102,000, and the winning sponsor pledged $55,000. They gave the truck a catchy name without their business name... real class. We just put a small plague on the truck naming them as the truck sponsor.

If you apply this to the kids, hold a contest to name the truck. Take a week to get the names submitted. Then form a committee made up of appointed kids, teachers and fire dept staff to weed through the names. Then hold an election at the school and let the kids vote for the name. Make it a big PR thing with the newspaper, radio and TV. It will make the dedication that much more of a big deal. It will give you a great relationship with the kids and school. You might even make a few bucks from donations. You could even give the kid with the winning name a prize or certificate.

Good Luck.

[snowball]

Call Ryan Secrest's radio show and dedicate "Endless Love" to the new apparatus.

[hwoods]

Hmmm............

our department shares its name with the local elementary school

You're are the "K thru 6" Fire Department??................

[d_holder86]

One of the local depts here just did this. they had the kids with water guns then after the kids helped dry the truck off then watched the ffs push the truck back into the station

[FWDbuff]

You're are the "K thru 6" Fire Department??................

Ummmmmmm....Harve.......No, you know what.....This is so easy I am going to pass on the chance.

[hwoods]

Oh Well..........

Ummmmmmm....Harve.......No, you know what.....This is so easy I am going to pass on the chance.

Dang, And I really baited that trap good, too..........

[PaladinKnight]

Another Fire Department that uses buses for fire trucks...

[FiremanLyman]

We will receive our new engine any day. Because our department shares its name with the local elementary school (which sits just yards behind our station), I have thought about involving the kids at school in the dedication.

Anybody done this? Any ideas?

Thanks!

Let one of them drive...

Another Fire Department that uses buses for fire trucks...

Ha!

[EastKyFF]

You're are the "K thru 6" Fire Department??................

Of course not! We have Head Start, too!

Lots of good ideas so far. Thanks!