Fire trucks

Today we went to the Manassas Park fire department for a tour and to check out the trucks with some of our friends, including one who lives in Manassas Park and organized the event. The tour was interesting for me, but Andy and the other kids were less interested in seeing where the fire fighters sleep during their 24 hour shifts and more interested in touching and "driving" the firetrucks.

Andy liked the hoses and stuff fine, but really all he wanted to do was sit in the driver's seat and man-handle the steering wheel. Such a boy sometimes. Some of the girls were very interested in safety. Molly, for example, sat in all the seats and tried on all the seat belts to make sure they worked properly. As you can imagine, that was less interesting for Andy who would rather flip the switches and rock the steering wheel than bother with that stuff.

I do hope they reset everything before they go on duty next. I would hate for them to rush out to a call only to find the truck stuck in reverse, all the blinkers on and the oxygen masks turned off. That could be problematic.