Fire Safety Day
This must be Fire Safety Week because the firemen are taking their little house around to each of the elementary schools in our area this week. Today is their day to visit the children in the school across the road. Sometime after 8 the firement came with their little house in tow and parked in the school lot. They brought a couple of the trucks, too. Teachers bring each class out into the parking lot and let them go through the little house and talk about what to do if they are ever in a house that catches fire. It's a very good program for the children. We all need to know what to do if there's a fire.
Last week, the fire trucks came to a house in the block below us. I saw the man come out into the yard and talk to the firemen and then the trucks returned to their station, which is just a block away from us. Later I read in the newspaper that neighbors had seen smoke coming from the house and called the fire department. When the firemen arrived at the scene, they found out that the man was grilling steaks on his sun porch and everything was under control.
It's nice to know we have neighbors who watch out for us, but it's also a bit unnerving to know that they may not watch close enough to know when we are really in trouble. But this incident reminds us of the old saying, "Better safe than sorry." It's true.
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