Blue Watch Visit

Today was such an exciting day.  Blue Watch from Lincoln North Fire Station came to visit us.
They showed us the uniform they wore when they were fighting fires.  Did you know they have their trousers over their wellies ready to save time when they need to put them on in a hurry?

Then they put on their jacket.  It has a whistle in the pocket.  They use this if they need to attract the attention of the other firefighters quickly.

Finally, they put on a flash hood, a helmet and gloves.  If they are going in to a fire in a building they also wear their breathing apparatus.

The Fire Fighters told us how to keep safe if there was ever a fire in our house.  The most important thing that we were told was to check that we all had a smoke alarm at home as these are so important to help save lives.  They told us that if we don't have a smoke alarm at home our grown ups just have to ring the fire station and they will come and fit some smoke alarms for free.  There should be one at every level in our house.  Make sure you check your house NOW!

We then learnt how we should all get together as a family and work out a fire plan so that we would all know what to do if the smoke alarm in our house did go off.

Then we looked at the Fire Engine and all of the equipment that is on board.

We saw the special camera they use when they can not see.  It shows people by detecting their body heat.

 We looked at the hoses.  There were lots of different size hoses.

We then saw the the cutting equipment.

We had a great day and learnt so much about keeping safe and how a fire engine works.

Don't forget to check you have smoke alarms fitted and a fire plan that everyone knows about.