Firestation Tour

Our ward in Pittsburgh had playgroup that met every Tuesday morning at a different local park throughout the sunny season.  At our last playgroup in Pittsburgh before me moved, Andrew and I joined the group at a local fire house for a tour.  We got to see the downstairs living room where the fire alerts are radioed in (there's always at least one firefighter awake and listening to the radio 24/7), the upstairs dorm room where they sleep and work out, and of course we got to see a real fire engine.  This fire house is pretty old and it's one of few that still have a fire pole, though they don't use it anymore.  I didn't realize before we went that fire houses aren't typically built with poles anymore.  The firefighters at this station said that whenever other firefighters visit their fire house to fill in or whatever, they always get photos and videos of themselves sliding down the pole because it's such a novelty.

 

Andrew got to sit in the back seat of the fire truck.

Here's the whole group.  What a bunch of cute kids, huh?