So, do you remember the enticing post I made about holding tight for some great pictures to come from our trip? Well, here they are…
After eating dinner with all of our friends the first night at a restaurant, while driving to the condo, we decided to stop at the grocery store and pick up some items for breakfast the next day.
Turning the car around, we noticed the fire station had their ladder truck out. We decided to stop and let the boys take a look at the truck (‘R’ wants to be a fireman).
While we were walking around the truck a fireman came up and began talking to us. He offered to let the boys sit in the truck…
We enjoyed talking to him and he asked if we wanted to go into the station house and look around. We met four other firemen. (Here’s where it gets good…) The Lieutenant asked if we wanted to go for a ride in the fire truck!! We got to ride around Ocean Shores and while on the road back to the station house, they ran the sirens and lights!
Everyone got to talk to each other through the headsets…
THEN, when we returned the Lieutenant asked if we wanted to watch them do a drill1 So, two firemen were timed in getting in full gear, extending the ladder on the ladder truck as far as it goes, rotating the ladder and the basket all the way around, then lowering the ladder to ground level.
Here is the Lieutenant explaining what is going to happen…
The drill…
One of the firemen walked across the ladder…
THEN, took a picture of the boys in the basket!
Next stop, the ambulance…
The Lieutenant took us back inside to see the blueprints for their new fire station…
Group shot. What a great night! (The picture is of their Captain, who die last year in a surf rescue…)
Wow! That is neat! my 5 year old daughter wants to be a fire fighter and she would have loved that!