The 2026 Maine State Firefighters Convention started Friday at the Skowhegan Fairgrounds in Skowhegan.
Events on Friday included antique apparatus judging, talks on firefighter health and wellbeing, front-line women, and talks by Ryan Johnston, Skowhegan fire chief, and keynote speaker Dave Quick.
Saturday’s events include a 10 a.m. parade, a firemen’s muster and will close out with a banquet and evening live entertainment.
The parade lineup on Saturday will begin at 9 a.m. at Skowhegan Area High School at 61 Academy Circle. Starting at 10 a.m, parade participants will leave the high school, proceed onto West Front Street, crossing the Margaret Chase Smith Bridges, and turn north onto U.S. Route 201 ending at Park Street. The parade will not go around the rotary.
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