Push-In & Wet Down Ceremony
Join Kingman Firefighters in the tradition of "pushing-into-service" and "wet down" of our new
Fire Engine Ladder 234.
Station 23 4000 N. Sierra (N. Sierra & Gordon) KINGMAN July 18, 2022 at 12-1:00p.m.
EXPLORE
EST. ARIZONA 1882
Light refreshments will be served
SANTA FE
The push-in & wet down ceremony dates back to horse-drawn steamer engines. Horses will not walk backward when they are under a load. When a new steamer was delivered to a firehouse, the assigned members would have
to push it into the firehouse. The wet down is a ritual wash down of a new engine that dates back to the 1800s when the neighboring fire station would
bring their horse-drawn engine over and wash down the new one.
Original source can be found here.
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