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Clear skies. Low 56F. Winds NE at 5 to 10 mph..

Clear skies. Low 56F. Winds NE at 5 to 10 mph.

Cloudy skies didn’t stop local kids and families from splashing, smiling and jumping into fire hoses Thursday afternoon at this year’s first Hoptown Hose Down event hosted by the Hopkinsville Division of Parks and Recreation in partnership with the Hopkinsville Fire Department.

The DeBow Recreation Complex saw families and their children crowd into the parking lot as HFD personnel hooked up their fire truck hoses to the fire hydrant and gave the local children a refreshing and fun hose down.

Hoptown Hose Down will continue to be hosted by Parks and Rec and HFD throughout the entire month of June and will make use of all the city’s parks. The event will be held every Tuesday and Thursday throughout June, with its next event being Tuesday, June 7 at River Front Park located at 116 Phillip Meacham Way.

Cloudy skies didn’t stop local kids and families from splashing, smiling and jumping into fire hoses Thursday afternoon at this year’s first Hoptown Hose Down event hosted by the Hopkinsville Division of Parks and Recreation in partnership with the Hopkinsville Fire Department.

The DeBow Recreation Complex saw families and their children crowd into the parking lot as HFD personnel hooked up their fire truck hoses to the fire hydrant and gave the local children a refreshing and fun hose down.

Hoptown Hose Down will continue to be hosted by Parks and Rec and HFD throughout the entire month of June and will make use of all the city’s parks. The event will be held every Tuesday and Thursday throughout June, with its next event being Tuesday, June 7 at River Front Park located at 116 Phillip Meacham Way.

Predicted rain and cloudy skies didn’t stop local kids and families from splashing, smiling and jumping into fire hoses Thursday afternoon at this year’s first Hoptown Hose Down event hosted by the Hopkinsville Division of Parks and Recreation.

The DeBow Recreation Complex saw between 80 and 100 families and their children crowd into the parking lot as Hopkinsville Fire Department personnel hooked up their fire truck hoses to the fire hydrant and gave the local children a refreshing and fun hose down.

This Thursday’s event marked the opening day for the Third Annual Hoptown Hose Down partnership between Parks and Rec and HFD and Parks and Rec Superintendent Tab Brockman was pleased with the turnout.

“We had a great crowd,” he said. “The weather held off and it wound up being a really nice early summer afternoon. We had as big or bigger a crowd as we’ve had (with this event) … it was a fun day and the only way to tell if it’s a success is by the squeals of the kids having fun and if that was the barometer for the day, it was a great day.”

Brockman continued to share that while the event had first been hosted in 2020, there were a lot of kids that attended the event for the first time.

“Many, many first timers, which is great because they were all wanting to know the times for the rest of the year and we told them where to find those, so we think it’ll only continue to grow,” Brockman said.

Parks and Rec continues to host this free event for the local children as a way to give back to the community and give families a fun and free alternative to the Tie Breaker Family Aquatic Center, which will be closed for the entire summer season this year for repairs.

“Everybody is disappointed that the water park is closed this summer, but this is a great alternative to it,” he said. “From the first time we did it, which was in 2020 during the COVID pandemic, it was just taken to very well by the community and when we called (Fire) Chief Steve Futrell he said ‘Of course we want to do it again.’ It’s a great way to have the ability to give back, to touch the community and interact with the community.”

Brockman added that while Hoptown Hose Down is focused on giving children splashy fun in the warm weather, it can also lead families to discover and make use of the different parks in Hopkinsville.

Parks and Rec shared that while the event does make use of an HFD fire truck, it uses one of HFD’s extra trucks and personnel in order to not take away from any regular services provided or emergencies responded to by HFD or EMS.

Hoptown Hose Down will continue to be hosted by Parks and Rec and HFD throughout the entire month of June and will make use of all the city’s parks.

The event will be held every Tuesday and Thursday throughout June, with its next event being Tuesday, June 7 at River Front Park located at 116 Phillip Meacham Way.

After that, Hoptown Hose Down will be on Thursday, June 9 and will move to the Dog Park at 151 Pardue Lane.

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