Then it was off to the Dunn Loring fire station, where despite repeated phone calls from Becca our visit ended up as a complete surprise to them! Luckily they were in the station and were great sports about accommodating us on such short notice.
By my count there ended up being about 14 preschool aged kids plus the moms and younger siblings attending....so it was a great turn-out!
The firefighters were kind enough to let the kids try on some of their gear...Ellie's modeling Firefighter Rebecca's heavy duty hat!
And Bradford got to stand inside of her boots for a minute!
Firefighter Felicia donned all of her gear and did some fun demonstrations for us...climbing the ladder, dragging the heavy "person", pounding down a "door", and lowering the rope. She was dripping sweat by the end, but still all smiles as she talked with the kids!
One of the highlights from the trip was actually getting inside the fire truck and looking at the world from a fire fighter's perspective!
Of course they each got their own fire hat to take home with them!
In all the fire station field trips I've attended over the years (somewhere in the double digits)...no one's ever let the kids spray the hose! What a special treat for them!
And an unexpected fascination of the day...the fish tanks and candy machines inside the station!It turned out to be a fun, well attended field trip. Thank you to Becca for making all of the arrangements (even if they forgot to write them down) and thank you to Captain Jackson and all the other fire fighters at fire house #13 for making this a wonderful day!!
Once again I have a ton more pictures than I can post here, so be sure to look at my online photo site where you can right click on any of the pictures and save them to your own computer full sized!
1 comment:
Lara,
Thanks for posting this and for the link to all of the great pics. And thanks to Becca for setting this up. I've been to a few fire stations myself and this by far was the best field trip so far!
:) Alex
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