大熊城圣诞树亮灯今年移入消防站举行：12月4日下午5时，免费入场
位于加利福尼亚州圣贝纳迪诺县山区的大熊城（Big Bear City），一年一度的圣诞树亮灯仪式今年改期又改址：将于 12 月 4 日（周五）下午 5 时举行，整个庆祝活动移入室内，在大熊城消防局 282 号消防站（301 W. Big Bear Blvd）的大型器械库房内举办，免费入场。
往年这项活动在户外举行，今年主办方把时间提前到周五傍晚、地点搬进消防站，让参加者在室内躲开山区冬夜的严寒。消防站的器械库房平日停放消防车，活动当晚将布置成节日会场。
大熊城是圣贝纳迪诺山脉中的山地社区，与大熊湖市相邻，海拔高、冬季寒冷，户外晚间活动常受天气影响。把亮灯仪式移入室内，是主办方今年主打的新安排，也让这项传统在天气不佳时不必取消。
主办方欢迎整个大熊谷（Big Bear Valley）的居民与访客到场，在消防站里一起倒数点亮圣诞树，开启山区的节日季。
（来源：大熊城消防局）
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)
来源：大熊城消防局
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图片来源：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
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