From: When is your department's Parade?

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The ONLY parade you should be attending is in your own town. There no excuse, reason or explanation good enough to send the fire apparatus that your taxpayers paid for out of town to play show and tell.

If you can't tell, I am pretty passionate about this little subject. I would love for someone to try and tell me why they think its ok to send your apparatus out of town for something like a parade.

You can say morale, you can say pride, you can say tradition. The fact remains that the apparatus in your town (for the most part) aren't yours. They are the taxpayers' and they belong in town providing their fire protection.