UAFD again apologizes for having to cancel our Santa run this year. Unfortunately, our new ladder truck is not yet in service. Our factory training (where the manufacturer comes to train us) is scheduled for the weekend of 12/16-12/17. Our active firefighters must spend the weekend, a week before Christmas, learning how to operate our new truck. It also still needs to have tools mounted, radios installed, etc. before it will be ready for operation and we are at the mercy of the companies’ schedules that provide those services.
Please also remember, we are all VOLUNTEERS that spend countless dedicated hours to ensure we are trained to respond in emergency situations. That is and always will be our main focus. We do as much as we can for the community in addition to that, but we all have careers, families, and other obligations just like all of you. It is disheartening for our members to have to read comments of people accusing us of lying and not caring. That is simply not true, and that is what will make our volunteers not want to do things like this anymore.
We wish everyone a safe, healthy, joyous holiday season.
