Ice Making Life Savers

The Auburn Fire Dept was filling the basketball courts today as they do every year to make a skating rink. This is a great idea in prevention safety. This area is just yards away from a lake. While it is cold enough for this shallow puddle to freeze solid it has not been cold enough long enough for the lake surface to freeze. With this public skating area available less people would be tempted to go out on to unsafe ice.
I hope to be doing this my self by next winter as this is the fire dept i just signed up to join.

It was funny watching them, first 2 of them, in the tank truck (with pump) to draft of the dry hydrant. They just could not get it primed right. Then another comes to help, then another, then 2 more... so six fire fighters to pump & dump some water... c'mon boys, get it together, look professional out there will ya?