this was the scene when we pulled up. pretty cool i might add. they always have the trucks so pretty and clean and shiny. i can see why kids love them so much! mine sure do :)
side view. i couldn't fit them all in here. i took all of these pictures from inside the car. i was afraid i'd be in the way if i got out and walked around so we stayed put. it was a nice windy day also so we stayed warm inside.
at first we were parked here behind the fence but that was just not gonna do. there was another firetruck parked right in front of the house they were burning. (that's my little brother standing there in front of the truck :)
don't have a clue who this is other than "jackson". lettin the water loose!
a few of them came to check out the water situation...it was leakin a bit but they fixed it!
i guess they decide they needed another hose(just in case), so "firefighter cook" went to fetch it :)
....last week when i asked justin how long it would take to get it started, he laughed and said "we're a lot beter at puttin out fires than startin them". i thought that was funny! :)
i was beginning to wonder if i needed to send my boys in to show them how to do it but then i saw some flames.
no more flames but lots of black smoke
flames and smoke...good deal!
BIG BAD orange flames!!! the amazing thing was sittin there knowing my little blonde hair brother was inside there the whole time!!! and i was calm.
now this is what i'm talkin about! i know he was havin a ball in there. he loves to play with fire!
fire has pretty much covered the back of the house now and smoke is pouring out the front
meeting.
they are starting to put water on it now. there is another house right at the back corner of this one and i think they were being cautious.? the ppl kept comin out to the porch to see what was goin on.
all the smoke and fire comin out was actually pretty. maybe notsomuch if someone had been living there.
the boys got really interested when they saw them using the truck to shoot water all the way over the top of the house! that was pretty cool. what kid wouldn't want to be a firefighter after seeing this? i mean, getting to play with fire AND water and not get your behind beat for it!!!
you can barely even see the house now!
it was a little sad to think this used to be someone's brand new house...
even with all the water they were spraying, it was still burning pretty good.
this is the house on the corner i was talking about. and there are a lot of buildings and a street and stop sign down there too...somewhere.....
the baby brother/firefighter
it's starting to fall in
keepin a watch over things
flames comin from the roof and attic
WOW!!! BIG flames coming from the roof and attic!!!
justin again. they kept walkin around the house...i guess to make sure things were okay on all sides.
the back part of the roof is fallin in. all kinds of crackling goin on......so cool!
making sure nothin gets away from them....they did a really good job!
this was the last part of the roof caving down on the house. it took a lot longer than i thought it would for an old house like that to burn.
here comes the man! maybe i should've gotten his autograph :) his little boy is gonna be so proud of him when he's old enough to watch him
work. maybe one day i can babysit and take him to watch like we did today........
back to work...
almost the end. we were gonna stick around and watch them roll up hoses but i figured it took them half the afternoon to get that done with allllllll those hoses they had stretched out there!!!
see what i mean? and there were more on the other side of the truck.....better safe than sorry i guess :) hope you enjoyed. i think the cordele fire dept. needs to start a blog......
:)
I love you little brother!!! thanks and God bless all you other guys who run in to a burning house to save people you don't even know!!!
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