It's not everyday that you're invited to see things up close and personal at a fire station. While we were in Colorado Springs on vacation, we had the opportunity (through a friend) to do just that. Richie, one of the fireman at station 1, invited us down for a personal tour.
We thought it was pretty cool that they let us get into the fire truck and put on the headsets so we could hear each other talking, and could even hear stuff that dispatch was saying. (We can only assume and hope that they couldn't hear us talking to each other).
After that, they even let us suit up in their fire gear. John wasn't sure he wanted the whole outfit on, but he did like the hat. They dressed me up in the full gear and even strapped on the 40 pound tank of compressed air and had me breath through the mask. The kids thought that was pretty cool, and to be honest, the big kid inside of me was pretty excited
too.
As if that wasn't enough, they also let Laurel and I each go on two separate 911 calls with them that came in while we were there. We strapped ourselves in the truck with four other firemen and off we went with sirens wailing and lights flashing.
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