To the firestation we go

The second part of Tuesday’s field trip was to the firestation. As we got off the school bus we were greeted by 3 fire fighters and of course the big, shiny, cherry red truck, all shiny and dressed up for the visit. I thought wonderful, the kids were immediately engaged, but perhaps I thought too soon. As we walked in we were directed to sit in a semi circle facing the left side of the fire truck. The first fighter began talking about fire safety, where to go and what to /not do in case of a fire. He got into great verbal detail, like if there’s a fire and you are in your room and you feel the door is hot stay away from the door and open your window and stick your head and yell “help”! I’m thinking.. hmm I don’t think my kid can open our windows.. they are not so easy, heck I have problems with them too. Then he asked the second fire fighter to put on her gear, including a mask that looked like something from Aliens (the movie with Sigourny Weaver) and cranked on the oxygen tank which sounded like Darth Vader. The kids were then directed to come up and touch the mask. I thought this was a good visual for the kids, taking away some fears if they are approached by one of these guys in a real situation. The kids woo’d and ahhh’d. The final speaker was the fire truck engineer. He started off great, removing the ladder which kind of reminded me of a transformer toy. Then he started talking about every piece of the equipment. He talked and talked and talked. The kids were starting to yawn, the teachers started taking pictures of themselves and kept thinking…need more buttons to be pushed perhaps turning on the siren to wake us up. Finally, the kids got to take turns going through the fire truck..with 30 + kids it literally was walk on through keep moving, don’t touch. At the end we received the tour of the firestation, we saw where they slept, their kitchen and game room. I was waiting to see the pole..no pole??? That’s right they all have everything on 1st floor..bummer! Apparently they ran out of hats and badge stickers which made my son so so sad. Okay back to school!

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