Tiny Adams Memorial Ride a Success

General President Schaitberger (right) and Tiny Adams' son, Mark, lead riders to memorial site in Indianapolis.

August 28, 2007 – Nearly 40 motorcycle riders from Indiana, Michigan and Illinois participated in the Tiny Adams Memorial Ride, held in conjunction with the Professional Fire Fighters Union of Indiana’s (PFFUI) fallen fire fighter memorial service on August 10, 2007, in Indianapolis.

IAFF General President Harold Schaitberger joined the riders as they left Brownsburg, Indiana, and rode approximately 30 miles to the site of the Indiana Police and Fire Memorial near the state capitol building in Indianapolis.

“This year’s event went off without a hitch,” says Dennis Swan, IAFF-MG 8th District Coordinator. “But, I am already thinking about how to make next year’s ride bigger and better. In fact, I am hoping to make it a two-day ride.”

At the close of this year’s ride – sponsored by IAFF-MG, PFFUI and Hendricks County, IN Local 4406 – seven names were added to the memorial, three of them professional fire fighters.

Tiny Adams, the ride’s namesake, was a member of Muncie, IN Local 1348. After he retired, Adams continued to fight for issues important to fire fighters as a state representative. He died in 2005.