Fire Station Tour!

This summer we went on a rather impromptu tour of the fire station!  Amrita was driving by it on a Tuesday, and thought: "we should take the kids there".   So she called, and the next day we showed up.

Apparently though, fire station tours aren't at the very top of the priority list at a fire station (go figure!).  The fire truck and crew at our fire station were out on a call!  So we (and 16 other small children we had gathered) waited and waited, and finally had a brilliant idea - we called another fire station and asked if we could come visit them instead!

We were all loaded out and turning back onto the road, when the fire truck returned.  Ah well, it goes like that.  We had moved on!

We had a great tour of a fire station.  We saw where the fire men sleep, where they work out, where they eat (4 fridges!), where they watch TV, how they get all dressed up to fight fires, and, of course, we saw the fire truck!  The fireman showed us all of the tools fire men have to break things to get to fires - and the kids were all quite impressed.

At the end of the tour a call came in, so we lined up all the kids along the wall and waved the firemen out to do their job.  Great tour, fun times!