Fire Saftey Week

We visited our local Fire Station for fire safety week! Joseph loved it! Maybe not as much as Josh and I though. It was super cool talking with the firemen and touring the station.

The truck at this station was a combo engine and truck. A fire engine actually carries water on board to pump out - sans ladder, and a fire truck has a ladder and no water. This one was a new to Plano and they were very proud! It made a grand entrance too...we pulled up and no truck was in the station. I prayed that it would pull up soon since there were a slew of kids hoping to see a big shiny fire truck. Sure enough the huge doors opened and in pulled the awesome red machine!

The guys were great, very nice to the kids and really informative. The adults were of course as interested as all the kiddos and I was all ears through the tour.

Joseph's favorite part was the big long power cord that hung down from the ceiling in the garage. They keep the trucks plugged in so they can be refrigerated and so the computers can run without having the ignition turned on. He didn't care about all that, just swinging the power cord. That was slightly against the rules so we had to keep on our eye on him. ;)

The lights were super cool and wild! They were very near seizure-ific!

Fun fact: they have three fridges, one for each shift, and they go grocery shopping at the beginning of the shift and get what they need to cook their meals.

They seemed to really enjoy hosting everyone and told us to come over any time. I think these guys just might be genuinely nice. It was really refreshing to meet some community "heroes" that actually made me proud. Josh has a memory of his local firemen down the street and how nice they were too. He used to go over there and they would throw the ball with him! They sure do know how to make a kiddo's day!