Big Bear City Moves Its Tree Lighting Indoors to the Fire Station on December 4
Big Bear City, a mountain community in San Bernardino County, California, is giving its annual Christmas tree lighting a new time and a new setting this year: the celebration moves to Friday, December 4, at 5 p.m., and moves indoors, into the apparatus bays of Big Bear Fire Department Station 282 at 301 W. Big Bear Blvd. Admission is free.
In past years the event was held outdoors. This year's shift — an earlier Friday-evening start and a fully indoor venue — is meant to take the mountain winter cold out of the equation, with the fire station's apparatus bays, normally home to the engines, dressed up as the festival hall.
Big Bear City sits at high elevation in the San Bernardino Mountains next to Big Bear Lake, where December nights are cold enough to disrupt outdoor events. Moving the lighting inside keeps the tradition on the calendar whatever the weather does.
Organizers are inviting the whole Big Bear Valley community — residents and visitors alike — to gather at the fire station and count down to the lighting together.
(Source: Big Bear City Fire Department)
Source: Big Bear City Fire Department
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Photo: 图片来源：Wikimedia Commons（inkknife_2000 摄，CC BY-SA 2.0），图中为大熊湖地区村落商业街景，亮灯活动在邻近的大熊城举行 Image: Wikimedia Commons (inkknife_2000, CC BY-SA 2.0); a village street in the Big Bear area — the lighting is held in nearby Big Bear City
