This time, our church friend Chris jio us to go for a walkabout the Central Fire Station coz her neighbour has been asking her to visit the place and so we tagged along coz it would be more informative compared the last visit we went!
Here's the grand lady building....looks really cool from outside and we were early to meet the rest! Well we din know beside the fire station building which we went some wks ago, there's also a museum beside and a souvenir shop...the last visit we went was barely covered in 30 mins but today we stayed for 2hrs there!
Here we are with other 6 families which totalled up to 10 kids and we were quite amazed by the commentary given by Mr Segar (he's Chris neighbour) but pretty impressed by his knowledge coz he's been at the force for 27 yrs! Now he's stationed at the museum (which we got to hear more stories) for 3 yrs and guess he shld be retiring in 2.5yrs time...and he was introducing to us the ambulance which is under the care of the fire station as well and while we were there, we experienced a call for the ambulance to ferry pple to hospital...felt so real when we heard all the siren and all there!
Here we are checking out the CPL (the ladder that brings firefighters to height to save pple from fire!) and on the right there is some mist gun which thrilled the kids so much they mostly got wet
Here we are at abt 5 storey high...the last visit we went to 8 storey high....and this time was without harness and all (checked with the guy controlling it and guess we could do without so as to save time but we guess it was coz the Sep was their 100th yr commemoration so they had all the photography/drawing competition so things were done more properly and all!) but we are glad to capture some shots with pple we know...will get pics from ah mu and fam! See them waving to us at height...
Here we are in front of the fire engines which we never get such chance to capture photos in real life coz we have to make way for them to save lives...
And here's a boy so game to climb up the fire engine to check out the huge vehicle!
And this time we understand the fire fighters are to slide down the pole to cut down the time to save lives...and there is actually a Spore style of sliding down (which the arms encircle the pole) which is diff from the American style! All thanks to Mr Segar who explained it all to us!
Then we moved on to the air con museum hehe where we checked out the old fire engines and aren't we glad the fire engines today look so much more stylo and efficient...
here we are hearing the explanation of the improvement done to the old fire engines to what we see today...behind is the steamer kind of fire engine which runs on water steam...hhmm guess it takes forever for the water to be pumped out huh?
Here's Ian trying to climb on the fire engine which he has tried to attempt to all possible ladders or steps hhmm busy legs running...
Yup that wraps up the tour today...dun u think we got info to share today than the previous trip? It sure makes a worthwhile trip to revisit the place but guess we were privileged to see more stuff the last time we went so glad we made 2 trips...will come again some day and maybe pop by to say Hi to the friendly Mr Segar =)
Here's the grand lady building....looks really cool from outside and we were early to meet the rest! Well we din know beside the fire station building which we went some wks ago, there's also a museum beside and a souvenir shop...the last visit we went was barely covered in 30 mins but today we stayed for 2hrs there!
Here we are with other 6 families which totalled up to 10 kids and we were quite amazed by the commentary given by Mr Segar (he's Chris neighbour) but pretty impressed by his knowledge coz he's been at the force for 27 yrs! Now he's stationed at the museum (which we got to hear more stories) for 3 yrs and guess he shld be retiring in 2.5yrs time...and he was introducing to us the ambulance which is under the care of the fire station as well and while we were there, we experienced a call for the ambulance to ferry pple to hospital...felt so real when we heard all the siren and all there!
Here we are at abt 5 storey high...the last visit we went to 8 storey high....and this time was without harness and all (checked with the guy controlling it and guess we could do without so as to save time but we guess it was coz the Sep was their 100th yr commemoration so they had all the photography/drawing competition so things were done more properly and all!) but we are glad to capture some shots with pple we know...will get pics from ah mu and fam! See them waving to us at height...
Here we are in front of the fire engines which we never get such chance to capture photos in real life coz we have to make way for them to save lives...
And this time we understand the fire fighters are to slide down the pole to cut down the time to save lives...and there is actually a Spore style of sliding down (which the arms encircle the pole) which is diff from the American style! All thanks to Mr Segar who explained it all to us!
Then we moved on to the air con museum hehe where we checked out the old fire engines and aren't we glad the fire engines today look so much more stylo and efficient...
here we are hearing the explanation of the improvement done to the old fire engines to what we see today...behind is the steamer kind of fire engine which runs on water steam...hhmm guess it takes forever for the water to be pumped out huh?
Here's Ian trying to climb on the fire engine which he has tried to attempt to all possible ladders or steps hhmm busy legs running...
Yup that wraps up the tour today...dun u think we got info to share today than the previous trip? It sure makes a worthwhile trip to revisit the place but guess we were privileged to see more stuff the last time we went so glad we made 2 trips...will come again some day and maybe pop by to say Hi to the friendly Mr Segar =)
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