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LANCASTER, N.Y. — People young and old on Saturday lined the streets in Lancaster to watch the annual Christmasville Fire Truck Parade.
Nearly 200 fire trucks from Western New York and beyond slowly made their way through the streets and in the snow. For our Most Buffalo Story of the Day back on Nov. 15, 2 On Your Side went to the Village of Lancaster where, every year to the delight of big crowds, hundreds of trucks are driven in the Christmasville Fire Truck parade.
RELATED: Organizers get ready for the Christmasville Fire Truck Parade We talked with one of the men who makes it happen. "We had an idea, Tommy and I, let's have a fire truck parade to promote for the community for Christmas and fire trucks themed up with Christmas lights , and we decided that we're going to have a parade, and it just grew from there," parade co-chair Jerry Enser said. It certainly did.
The Christmasville Fire Truck Parade in Lancaster started with 19 trucks in 2007. Now it has more than 200. "You put my two favorite things together.
Christmas lights and fire trucks. You put them together, and you just have a warm feeling," Enser said. We met up with parade co-chair and Greater Lancaster Museum of Firefighting President Jerry Enser at the museum Friday morning to talk about this year's parade.
It's Saturday, Nov. 30 at 6 p.m.
So far, trucks from seven counties are signed up. "You can see whatever creativity that they came up with for the year. So I have no idea what they create until they are on the street, and then they say, wow, that's pretty cool what they just did," Enser said.
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