Fire Station tour

 Our preschool just took its first field trip to the fire station.  Firefighter Loveless (his real name) showed us around.  The kids had a blast.  The moms asked lots of questions:  What does that do?  How much does a fire engine cost?  Do you really rescue cats stuck in trees? (Firefighter Loveless said, "No.  Just dogs.")

On the bottom left is Lucy checking out the inside of the fire truck.

One little boy in our preschool was very excited to be visiting the fire station.  I made this picture bigger so you can see his sweet smile.  He and his mom baked brownies to take to the fire fighters.  He usually wears his fire fighter outfit everywhere, but he wore it with particular pride today.

Firefighter Loveless showing us his gear.

He put on his oxygen mask and helmet so that the kids would know what a firefighter coming to rescue you from a burning building would look like.  Lucy and another little girl promptly lost it-- tears and cries of "I wanna go home!" ensued.  Once he took them off, they calmed down and we went out to see the ladder truck.

Just as we were ending the tour, the alarm went off, so we even got to see the engines racing off.

We all had to laugh at the sweetness of this little guy.  He was sweating underneath all of his fire gear, but refused to take it off.

The only bummers of the day were that there was no fire dog or fire pole.  But, other than that a great first field trip!