‘Touch A Truck’ Brings Many Smiles To Syracuse Families
Josh Taylor of Turkey Creek Fire Territory demonstrates the use of a gurney in the back of one of the department’s ambulances to Dallas White and his mother, Zoe White.
By Keith Knepp
InkFreeNews
SYRACUSE — What do fire engines, farm equipment, school buses, ambulances, dump trucks and semi cabs have in common? They were all on display during the annual “Touch A Truck” event at the Syracuse Community Center. After skipping a year due to COVID concerns last May, the big trucks were back out on display for kids and adults alike to explore, up close and personal.
Approximately a dozen different work vehicles of different shapes, colors and sizes, along with the men and women who operate them, were lined up along Long Drive on a beautiful May Day. Dozens of families made their way to the Community Center to take part in the event.
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- Elijah Resindez, 3, Goshen, peers out from the John Deere cab as his grandfather, Chris Dirmyer, looks on.
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- Many adults and children came to the Touch A Truck event in Syracuse on Saturday, May 1.
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- Bryson O’Connell, 4, of Milford, climbs into a Turkey Creek Fire Territory truck as hs brother Nolan, 6, and parents Nathan and Mandy look on from below.
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- Niles Kauffman, 6, Syracuse checks out the cab of a semi that was brought to the Touch A Truck event by Gary Smith, left, while his mother Tyson Niles looks on.
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- Ella Conley, 6, Leesburg, takes her turn in the big seat of a semi on Saturday, May 1.
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- Charlotte Meeks, 4, Syracuse, climbs the latter to get into the cab of a piece of John Deere farm equipment.