I've seen blog posts about field trips to fire stations and was excited about Hyrum going to his field trip to a fire station.
But really the most exciting thing for me was watching Hyrum interact with his classmates and see him in a more classroom environment. When we first got there the kids were gathering in the main foyer and as boys would get there Hyrum would beckon to them and pat the carpet beside him inviting them to sit by him. It warmed my heart.
After a short introduction they were lead into the garage of the fire station where Fireman Daryl talked to them about fire safety.
He was right down on the ground with them reviewing key points and showing them his gear.
I decided at one point that taking flash pictures wasn't the best idea.
He put all of his fire gear on to show them what a fireman would look like coming to a house fire because it would be alarming to a scared child and warned them not to hide.
He gave the kids a chance to try on his fire clothes and a few did but Hyrum wanted nothing to do with that.
As soon as we walked into the garage with the fire engines Noah said "Fire! Fire! Fire!" I didn't even know that he knew anything about fire engines. Go figure.
After the fire safety presentation we walked over to the ambulance to get further instruction but not before getting out the wiggles. I was the only mom getting wiggles out with the kids. :) When they walked over to the ambulance the EMT's didn't have them sit down
but when their teacher came over ( with much more experience with children) she had the kids sit down immediately and they were given much more attention after that.
They showed the kids how they checked for oxygen in their blood
And their motorized gurney. And strapped one of them to a backboard to show them what might happen.
Upon seeing this Noah just kept saying "Uh oh Momma! Uh oh Momma!"
They even got to take a ride on the gurney
and get into the ambulance
(For some reason Hyrum could NOT stop yawning.)
Then the police officer came to talk to them. He too had them stand but the kids were quickly seated when their teacher came. He showed them his taser gun.
and his police car
and his lights and sirens
Hyrum even got in to see the cage. Hope that's the last time he's in a police car.
He went home with a plastic fireman hat, pencil, sucker, coloring book, rubber glove that he wanted made into a balloon and a police badge sticker. It was a good day!
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