UPDATE: New Photos Added From Napa Valley Fourth of July

UPDATE: July 9, 2013.
Napa photographer Jamie Clemons of JLC Photography has shared her photos of Napa's biggest and best Fourth of July parade to date.

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ORIGINAL STORY: July 4, 2013.
Napans old and young lined the streets of downtown today for a thrilling Fourth of July parade.

"I like all the floats -- even the people walking," said Hunter Gray, 16, a parade security volunteer under the auspices of Napa Sunrise Rotary, parade sponsors.

Thursday's event included more than 200 entries, of which more than 100 were floats. Leading the parade on motorcycles were Napa Police traffic officers Tom Helfrich and Gregg Lee.

They were followed by a Napa City Fire Department "Stars & Stripes" aerial ladder engine purchased in 2012, said Napa Fire Capt. Carl Johnson.

"This truck does all the rescue work, and all the hazardous materials work," he said. "It has the 'Jaws of Life' on it (for extrications) and it has rope."

Behind the sparkling 2012 engine painted red, white and blue was an antique red fire engine from 1948. 

"It was in operation until 1989," Johnson said of the 1948 Coast Fire Apparatus Pumper. "It worked in the Flood of 1986."

A Sunrise Rotary spokesman said this year's parade was at least 15 percent larger than last year and was "more elaborate," he said.

"This is so different," said Sylvie Marchi of Sarasota, Fla., who was in California for the first time on her honeymoon with new husband Robert Tenbrunset. "You advertise everything (in the parade) in your town."

Marchi, a Bordeaux, France native and Tenbrunset, a native of Michigan, were   married April 14. They were watching the parade from the shaded comfort of the Starbucks patio at First and Main streets.

"Napa is a very cute town," said Tenbrunset. "We timed it to be here for the Fourth of July."

Gray, the son of Doris Gentry, parade co-announcer with Bob St. Laurent of radio stations 93.3 The Vine FM and KVON 1440 AM, said even though he's not a SF Giants fan (he's  an Oakland A's man) he thought the Napa Valley Gamer Babes did a good job with their float decked out in orange and black Giants' colors.

"I like to keep things positive," Gray said.