Coeur d'Alene firefighters welcome new fire engine
Coeur d’Alene Fire Chief Tom Greif reads the dedication of Coeur d'Alene Fire Department's new fire engine Thursday at Fire Station 2.
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Coeur d’Alene Fire hosted a ceremony to add a new fire engine to its holdings.
To conclude the ceremony, participants pushed the engine backwards as a historic nod towards the days of horses being used to fight fires. Horses aren’t comfortable backing into the station, so in the horse-drawn engine days, firefighters had to detach the horses from the equipment and push the equipment into the station.
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Heads are bowed as an invocation is read at the Coeur d’Alene Fire Department's dedication ceremony for the new fire engine at Fire Station 2.
CAROLYN BOSTICK/Press
Coeur d’Alene dedicated a new fire engine Thursday.
The fire engine was purchased with the $16.4 million general obligation bond funds approved by voters in May.
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