A Float to Remember...LACoFD FF's Rose Parade Float

**RescueKujo** · November 3, 2006

Saw this on a LA County Fire Forum...thought you guys back there would be interested in it...

"Two words lingered in the back of Jerry Thomsen’s head for almost 10 years.
Never forget.
When the Los Angeles County fire specialist descended upon New York to lend emotional support to fire crews and residents just weeks after Sept. 11, 2001, he heard people repeat over and over those two words following the terrorist attacks that killed close to 3,000 people.
“Anytime there was a funeral in New York, the streets were filled up,” he said. “The two words I always heard when I was back there were ‘never forget.’”
Thomsen traveled back to his Agua Dulce home, wondering what he could do to keep New York uplifted and to continue to honor the heroes of 9/11.
He finally got his answer on Jan. 1 of this year as he watched the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade. Thomsen decided to design a parade float.
The Tournament of Roses has accepted Thomsen’s proposed design for a “Never Forget 9/11” float for the 2011 parade, leading into the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11.
“I feel privileged and honored that they let me have this in,” said the 53-year-old.
The float will be the second to commemorate 9/11 in the Rose Parade; the first appeared in 2004, said Vanessa Flores, public information manager for the Tournament of Roses.

LA County Firefighter's Rose Parade Float