Wednesday 11:30AM: Motorcycle Drill Team, fire engines run amok in Center City

Hero Thrill Show Rally to kick
off fund-raising efforts in Center City to help families of fallen police
and fire heroes

Spectators
will get a sneak preview of the 58th Annual Philadelphia Hero
Thrill Show at the noon kickoff event. Thrill Show Chairman Jimmy Binns,
an attorney and patron of police and fire personnel, will lead an all-star
lineup featuring Highway Patrol Motorcycle Drill Team, fire engines and
much more. Tickets for the September 22nd Thrill Show will be available.
 

Where: Market Street, between
18th and 19th streets, (entire block)

The Philadelphia Hero
Thrill Show is Saturday, September 22, at noon, outside the
Wells Fargo Center, 3601 S. Broad St., in South Philadelphia. In
addition, this fall fund-raiser will include Thrill Show Grand Marshal
 A. Thomas Schomberg, creator
of the Rocky sculpture now at the Philadelphia Museum of Art,
 and displays of crime-fighting equipment by the Aviation Unit, Bomb
Squad, the Crime Scene Investigation Unit, Explorers, the Marine Unit,
Firearms Instructors, Police Academy and S.W.A.T. The show is designed
to raise money for the education of survivors of deceased police and fire
personnel killed in the line of duty in Philadelphia. Tickets are $10
for single purchase, $25 for families (5 tickets, half price). They are
available at local police, fire stations or visit www.herothrillshow.org