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A friend of ours, who is a firefighter, was asking Deidrah after church one day where our meeting spot was in case of a fire in our home. She didn't have an answer and was rather displeased with my not having taught her such a thing. He also was displeased and instructed Deidrah to instruct me to bring her and Miriam by his fire station for a tour and fire safety lesson one day. All dressed in pink leotards, coming from dance lessons, we decided to go have a course in EDITH (exit
drills in the home... see, I learned something too). The girls had a blast climbing around on three different trucks while learning what the job(s) of each truck was. Miriam was pretty timid of "Fireman David" (as the girls call him) as he started putting on all of his uniform (it all weighs over 100 pounds!). I must say it did look 
and sound intimidating. He got on the floor with her and Deidrah and had them practice crawling to him and just not being afraid of him, which ended in the girls hitting him to see if they could hurt him. I was instructed 
in "change your clocks, change your batteries" meaning, when the time changes, change the batteries in all your smoke alarms. We were all instructed on what we needed to do in case of a fire in our home. The drive home consisted of the girls discussing which tree in our front yard should be our "meeting tree" in case of an emergency and my being put through a check list of "home fire hazards" (I passed). All in all, I think we are ready; our
tree has been picked out, we know what a firefighter looks and sounds like, and both girls picked out a new color for their new rooms once our home is rebuilt after being burned down (never hurts to be prepared).
A friend of ours, who is a firefighter, was asking Deidrah after church one day where our meeting spot was in case of a fire in our home. She didn't have an answer and was rather displeased with my not having taught her such a thing. He also was displeased and instructed Deidrah to instruct me to bring her and Miriam by his fire station for a tour and fire safety lesson one day. All dressed in pink leotards, coming from dance lessons, we decided to go have a course in EDITH (exit
drills in the home... see, I learned something too). The girls had a blast climbing around on three different trucks while learning what the job(s) of each truck was. Miriam was pretty timid of "Fireman David" (as the girls call him) as he started putting on all of his uniform (it all weighs over 100 pounds!). I must say it did look 
and sound intimidating. He got on the floor with her and Deidrah and had them practice crawling to him and just not being afraid of him, which ended in the girls hitting him to see if they could hurt him. I was instructed 
in "change your clocks, change your batteries" meaning, when the time changes, change the batteries in all your smoke alarms. We were all instructed on what we needed to do in case of a fire in our home. The drive home consisted of the girls discussing which tree in our front yard should be our "meeting tree" in case of an emergency and my being put through a check list of "home fire hazards" (I passed). All in all, I think we are ready; our
tree has been picked out, we know what a firefighter looks and sounds like, and both girls picked out a new color for their new rooms once our home is rebuilt after being burned down (never hurts to be prepared).
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