by Geoff Fox
Firefighters at Hancock Volunteer Fire Company took part in a tradition firefighters have been doing for centuries by holding a housing ceremony for Tanker 5 on Monday evening, July 7.
The Fire Department Housing Ceremony typically involves pushing a new piece of apparatus into the station bay where it will be housed.
This tradition harkens back to when horse-drawn equipment and firefighters having to manually push their apparatus into the station.
Firefighters…
