Our 3 Monkees: Hose Cart Races & Bucket Brigades

Saturday, July 11, 2009

Hose Cart Races & Bucket Brigades

It is a annual Prescott Fire tradition to have a Hose Cart & Bucket Brigade tournament every 4th of July weekend. Prescott and other surrounding Fire Departments come out every year for the big water battle. We are hoping one of these years D's brother will bring a team up from Avondale. =) This is always a fun and wet event, this year was one of the biggest, we had tons of on lookers, as well as lots of team entry's, we even had a DPS team, and a few different wives teams. Prescott is the oldest fire department in the state and these races use the techniques they used to use in the old days to put out fires.

D and his team competed in both the Hose Cart races as well as the Bucket Brigades, they won a few races but overall lost the trophy, but they had a blast participating.
I too was on a "Prescott Fire Ladies" Bucket Brigade team, my team came in second place in the wives division. I also for the first time this year joined a Wives hose cart team, and had a blast! It was so much fun and even better, we took home the championship! We cannot wait to do it again next year.

This is one of the Kargs' favorite events to come to Prescott for, so of course they were here. All the kids just love playing in the water and getting as wet as they possibly can. After the races we all head to the park to attend the annual Union Picnic for the Firemen and there families. There we just enjoy eating, hanging out and no party would be complete without dancing. =) Thank you again so much for coming up Karg family, as usual we always have fun and enjoy your company. R next year you are getting dunked in the trauf!