A Fire Day

If it's Saturday, it must be time to go to another open house...last week was trains, and this week was the fire station in a local city.

Don't you think Natalie makes a great firefighter? She and Lukas had fun eating popcorn, checking out the inside of a brand-new ambulance and watching the demonstrations. We made it out of the ambulance without hurting ourselves...barely! Lukas was touching things and I told him not to touch and the paramedic said, "he can touch anything in here." So Lukas promptly unlatched something that fell down on his hand. The paramedic didn't see it happen because Lukas was the stoic that he often is when he gets hurt. Later tonight he mentioned his hand hurt but didn't remember how it happened.

Here are Lukas, Natalie, Tom (Konrad is on Tom's chest, out of the picture), watching as a car is set on fire and then the fire department puts out the fire. The also demonstrated with a fake building that they set on fire in the middle of the street (very glad we weren't down wind of that!) and then put out the fire.

One of the fireman asked Lukas, "Where do you live?" Lukas responded with the correct city, but then the fireman asked him, "what street do you live on?" Lukas knows his home address, but if someone asks him in a different way, he doesn't know the answer, so that's something I need to go over with him. That reminds me that Lukas asked me this week, "What's the number I call in case of emergency?" I said, "You mean 9-1-1?" "Yes, 9-1-1." I don't know who told him about 911, because I never have and neither has Tom, but I guess this is a good time to teach him about it...and about only using it in an emergency!