Hinds Country Store sponsors fourth annual Bucket Brigade

Before the advent of pump firetrucks, people would line up in a human chain, passing buckets of water from person to person to extinguish the fire. This is known as a Bucket Brigade. Last year, Hinds Country Store sponsored their first Bucket Brigade at ‘It’s Not Fair’ for residents of Morgan County. Being well received Gary and DeLynn Patterson, owners of Hinds, decided it should be a new Morgan Fair tradition.

Instead of working to extinguish a fire, by passing a buck from person to person, teams of five, competed to win $500 by having five participants filling buckets from a tub of water, running to the other side, passing it up to the fifth person on top of a platform who then empties the buckets into a large plastic container. The goal is for a team to fill their container so that water flows back into the tub from a spout to be reused for each heat. The winner of each heat moves on bracket style until two teams compete in the finale. λ