Photo: Preparing for a Merry WaterFire

Journal photo/ Mary Murphy

WaterFire employees Garry Johnson, left, and Mike Allen, with Levy Rollins operating the boat, remove old buoys and replace them with newly painted ones along the Providence River Thursday morning. There is one more WaterFire this year, on December 14. An anonymous sponsor has funded the 2nd Annual Christmas WaterFire to benefit the Providence Rescue Mission. The fires will be lit immediately after the 6 p.m. Christmas tree lighting in Waterplace basin.