 We want to welcome everybody here today for this, this conference. This is a great day in the City of Congress in County because it's an opportunity to put a brand new piece of apparatus into play. Before I move on, I want to just thank our leaders. We want to thank our Mayor, Mayor Benjamin, our Councilman, Will Brennan, our Councilwoman, Teresio, our County Administrator, Mr. Brown, and also our Assistant County Administrator, Dr. Thompson. Truly, this cannot happen without the collaborative efforts of all these people. But not only on these people, but also our community, our firefighters, and all of us that have a part in, want to give a special thanks all to our City Manager who could not be here today. This is a brand new piece of equipment that appears. This truck costs a little over $1.2 million. It's going to serve the five points area, also the Shannon area, and any place that this truck is needed. So it's not unusual for this truck to not only be in this neighborhood, but be in neighborhoods abroad, whether it be in the city or whether it be in the county. So we really appreciate the opportunity to put this into play. We always decided in the county, always try to make sure that we got the right piece of equipment, that we got good equipment that can be used to serve this neighborhood, this community, this city, this county. But also something that our firefighters can be proud of. We're extremely happy to be here today to put this into service. Before we move on, I want to give all our elected officials and managers the opportunity to come say something if they so desire. I explicitly told the Chief I did not want to speak. He never listens to me. This is just a, we live in such a challenging world right now. As we deal with the pandemic, as we work our way through the economic disruption and social unrest, and just taking a moment to celebrate. I think something that couldn't be any more American than the men and women who served the Columbia Ritz and Fire Department, putting a new piece of public equipment in the place that keeps all of our families safe. It's what happens, you get great partnership between the city and the county, and you get true public servants who are dedicated to making sure all of our families remain safe. So we're just glad to be here. We're so glad to be here with Councilor Gretin, Councilor Taratio, and Dr. Thompson, Mr. Brown. I mean, we all work every single day to make sure that Chief Jenkins and his entire team, that they have what they need. And it's just a good day. A good day and so happy these beautiful babies can join us as well. The reason why we all do what we do is so they don't have an opportunity to live up to their full promise and potential in this great country. So glad to be here. I'm going to step aside. Chief, thank you so much for the beautiful weather for us to push in this beautiful truck. It's great to be surrounded by city and county elected officials. And I want everybody in Richland County, in every municipality in Richland County to remember it takes a city county effort to provide for wonderful fire services. And we have to keep that a priority. So we look forward to continuing that strong relationship with our friends of the county to provide the funding that our wonderful city, Richland, Columbia Richland Fire Department needs to do their job and do their job safely. So again, Chief, thank you for having us out today and thank you to our first responders, our fire professionals to keep us safe. Thank you so much. Thank you all for coming here to witness this amazing tradition. This is one of the most fun things that I get to do is to help push in these fire trucks. It's amazing that we get to have this brand new piece of equipment to serve the county and the city together. So, yeah, thank you all for being here to help us celebrate. Just very briefly, I just want to echo on what the mayor said and what Mr. Brennan said. It's important that we have a partnership. And our presence here today, Council Member Teratio, Dr. Thompson and myself, the county administrator, just a testament to our commitment to serve as good community partners with the city of Columbia, as well as our other organizations that we serve with. So again, just want to say thank you for the opportunity to come out and show the men and women of the fire department that those who are sometimes are not seen, that we support you, that we want to make sure that we're here and our representation here communicates that to you on today. So again, thank you, Mr. Mayor. Thank you, Chief Jenkins. Thank you, members that are represented here today. Back in the day when they had the horses pulling the fire apparatus, when they get a new piece of equipment or when they get back to the station, the horses couldn't back the truck in, so they used to have to push it in. So we have adopted that tradition when we put a new piece of equipment in and we're going to actually push it in to signify a new apparatus going in the service. And all before we do the push in, we all offer up a prayer for both our men and women that ride these trucks, the community that it served, and just pray that we get good service out of it. I'm at this time with Dr. Thompson with my leading us in that prayer. Absolutely. Let us pray. Lord God, we're just so thankful for another day. But thank you for the investment that is being made in this community here in Columbia Richland County, Lord God. We thank you, Lord, for the men and women who will be using this apparatus, Lord God, please continue to keep them safe, Lord God, continue to guide them and provide them with all the necessary protection, protect their family while they're away from their families, Lord God. And we'll forever give you the praise, honor, and glory. It is in your name, Jesus Christ, we pray, amen.