By NEAL WAGNER / City Editor

Santa Claus will take a break from his preparations at the North Pole on Christmas Eve this year to take a ride around Alabaster on one of the city’s fire trucks.

From 1-8:30 p.m., the Alabaster Fire Department will escort Santa through every neighborhood in the city. During the tour, Santa will stop at the yellow and red “Santa Stop” signs placed throughout the city prior to Christmas Eve.

Because the Fire Department could temporarily delay the tour to respond to emergencies, the department is asking families to look for Santa 30 minutes before or after his scheduled stops.

On Christmas Eve, the Fire Department will post live updates on Santa’s location on AlabasterFire.org.

The following is Santa’s schedule for Christmas Eve:

 

1 p.m. – Portsouth, Norwick Forest, Kingwood, Spring Gate and Cedar Grove.

1:30 p.m. – Cedar Grove Mobile Home Park and Sterling Gate

1:40 p.m. – Northwest and Olde Town

1:45 p.m. – Southwind, Meadowlark, Willow Creek and Willow Point

1:50 p.m. – Woodland Hills

2:15 p.m. – Cambridge Pointe I, Summerbook and Chinaberry

2:25 p.m. – Eaglewood Estates and Navajo Hills

2:40 p.m. – Greenfield and Lacey’s Grove

2:45 p.m. – Applegate

2:50 p.m. – Falling Waters

2:55 p.m. – Cambridge Point II

3 p.m. – The View apartments

3:05 p.m. – Knox mobile home park

3:10 p.m. – Ashford Heights, Maylene

3:20 p.m. – Northeast, Hickory Hills, Grande View Gardens and Shalimar

3:25 p.m. – Autumn Ridge and Grande View Estates

3:35 p.m. – Bermida Lake and Oakwood

3:55 p.m. – Amberly Woods

4 p.m. – Peavine mobile home park and Berryhill

4:15 p.m. – Lake Terrace and Southwest

4:20 p.m. – Wellington Manor

4:25 p.m. – Apache Ridge

4:35 p.m. – Weatherly

4:45 p.m. – Navajo Pines

4:55 p.m. – Maplewood and Shady Oak Lane

5 p.m. – First Avenue and the 2000 block

5:10 p.m. – Stoney Meadows

5:20 p.m. – Wynlake

5:30 p.m. – Fox Valley and Silver Creek

5:35 p.m. – Woodbrook apartments and Shelby Farms

5:50 p.m. – Buck Creek Landing

6 p.m. – Douglas Meadows and Smokey Ridge

6:10 p.m. – Park Place

6:15 p.m. – Tanglewood

6:25 p.m. – The Meadows

6:30 p.m. – Timber Ridge

6:35 p.m. – Keystone mobile home park, Southeast, Park Forest Village and Iron Wood

6:45 p.m. – Stage Coach, Meadowview and Willow Glen

6:50 p.m. – Kentwood

7 p.m. – Dogwood Forest, Forest Hills and South Forty

7:10 p.m. – Lake Forest

7:20 p.m. – Carriage Hills

7:30 p.m. – The Grove

7:40 p.m. – Wisteria

8:10 p.m. – Terri Lynn mobile home park

8:15 p.m. – Green Valley

8:30 p.m. – Mountain Lake