April 17, 2004

PRESS RELEASE

To: Newsroom

For Immediate Release

Contact: Brian A. Crawford, Asst. to the Fire Chief

Phone: 673-6652, cell: 455-2411, page: 675-2137

Neighborhood to Honor Firefighters

In light of National Firefighters Week, May 16-22, residents in the Allendale neighborhood of Shreveport will honor firefighters at Station 4, 2200 Milam Street . . .

with a bar-b-que lunch Monday, May 17 at 11:00 a.m. The lunch is sponsored by a variety of community organizations that include:

Lakeside Community Center

Lakeside Golf Course

Neighborhood Association Team

Sickle Cell Disease Association

Lakeside Senior Citizens

The "First Tee" of Northwest Louisiana

Lakeside Neighborhood Association

Banks Bar-B-Que

According to a representative of the Lakeside Community Center, "Firefighters are what we call them but they do so much more and that is why we are taking this moment to say thank you to the fire station in our community, Station four." ###