I love the Oxford Fire Department. I go to spin class with these guys on Thursday mornings, and they are such a cool, close-knit group. I love being in the middle of their good-natured ribbing with each other. Plus, they spend a good part of the year planning how to make the fire station super spooky for Halloween trick-or-treaters. My middle daughter Sallie is the only one who will brave their haunted house with me.
Yesterday, I walked with my kindergardener to her fire station field trip.
While we were there, we had a REAL fire alarm. The guys went from talking to a group of children about "stop, drop and roll" to jumping into their gear and taking off in the fire truck (an electric transformer was on fire). One of the parents timed them, and it was literally 60 seconds from the time of the alarm to them hopping onto the truck, fully dressed. A few more seconds and they were on the street with the sirens blaring.
As you can imagine, the children were mouth-gaping, awestruck, and many future firefighters were created that day.
Only about five of the firemen left to go on the call (they have different teams that handle different types of fires), leaving the rest of the group to show the kids how to dial 911 and talk to an operator. And, to meet Sparky, of course.
Then we walked to our house for popsicles because our house is located right between the school and the fire station. My new spider friend had created an especially lovely web for the kids and was perched just high enough to be out of reach.
It was quite a day. And, no. I didn't get any writing done.
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6 comments:
Kewl!
Oh, I bet those kids were amazed when that truck rolled out with all the lights and blaring the siren.
What a treat!
Bet that was the coolest field trip ever!
And the little girl that didn't want to be a firefighter decided she would marry one. That's what happened when I visited the fire station in kindergarten. Some little girl is drawing little houses on fire with hearts around them somewhere...
I remember taking my class on a fire station field trip and the call came in....man those kids were so hyped up! It was very cool.
What a great way to spend time with kids!
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