Fire Prevention Week

We finally made it to Fire Prevention Week! Every year I've either heard about it after the fact or we were not able to make it. But, not this year!

We visited the station on the corner of South Broadway and Sixth Street SW on Tuesday with Luke, Daddy, Gramma, Papa, and Bridgy. We got there right when the open house started, so Luke got some undivided attention from the fire fighters who were geared up for the first night of their open houses for fire prevention week. For those of you that know Luke well, he was naturally intimidated by the fire fighters that he was so excited to see:) They tried to coax him into spraying the hose and putting out the fire with the extinguisher, but Brent and I pretty much ended up doing what was meant for Luke to enjoy.

Brent, I mean Luke, spraying the hose.

Me, I mean Luke, ready to spray the extinguisher.

After checking out the trucks in the garage and touring the inside of the station, we even got to see the fire fighters use the spreader and cutter to open and cut off the door of a car that had been in an accident. The spreader essentially pries the door open and the cutter cuts the hinges of the door to remove it completely. Pretty cool!



And yes, Luke did warm up to the environment after some more families came and he wasn't the focus of the fire fighters. He told us on the way home that he wants to be a fire fighter, so I'm thinking some of his shyness was pure awe that he was in the presence of such amazing men. He told me today that the plastic fire hat he got at the open house is very special to him and he insisted on wearing his "badge" sticker the next day at daycare:)

The special hat and badge on our future fire fighter.

All in all a great experience and a great night. I especially liked that we polished off the night with some Chinese food on the way home:)

Check out the pics on the October 2010 link on the left.