It's the season of lights, which for some, means a battle to have the best Christmas display on the block.
"Basically the weekend after Halloween we start decorating and planning out what we want to do," explained Garry Aranda.
He doesn't put lights on his house though. He is the "Clark Griswold" of firetrucks.
"There is about 60 hours of work between my wife and I," Aranda said.
Garry Aranda is a retired firefighter with South Adams County Fire and Rescue. He is now the station's fleet manager. He owns four of his own firetrucks and has been lighting them up each December for almost 30 years.
"Every year we change or add something to the truck. This year we changed the color scheme on it. We put more blue on it this year," he said.
There are about 6,500 lights on the 2015 display. They flash to the beat of holiday music that plays on the engine's speakers. Aranda drives it around the metro area spreading holiday cheer.
"If we take Santa Clause, there are times when you can't even see the road because the flashes are going off on cameras. Cars are pulling up next to us. We've even had celebrities pull up next to us," Aranda said.
"We go out through trailer parks or places we know people need stuff and start passing things out," he said.
He hands out toys, candy and other donations to low income families and children. None of them know he is coming. It is a total surprise. Aranda says the smiles on their faces make all the hours spent decorating his truck worth it.
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