Drew showed Uncle Todd his fire helmet and Todd showed Drew his new black fire helmet. The new helmet shows that Todd is no longer in his probationary period (yellow helmet) and now is an official firefighter. We're trying to convince Drew he needs a black fire helmet now too.
We tried without success to get Drew to wear a red fire helmet (which is what the officers wear), but instead he let Kate wear it while he stuck to his normal yellow helmet.
Here is Drew with a halligan and ax. He's ready to take down a door!
There were lots of smiles from Drew as he checked out the fire engine!
I've got some video of moving the truck outside, but in this picture you can see that we're outside the fire station. The walls of this fire station are stone, and the building was constructed in 1902!
Todd took out some hose for us, so then he had to put it back. He pulled out the yellow line and nozzle to show us.
There are cool compartments all over the fire engine, and here Todd is showing Drew a hose wrapped up and stored in a compartment in the front bumper. Very cool!
Drew took a seat on the front of the fire engine while uncle Todd told him about the siren he was sitting next to (with the F on it). It's loud!
Kate got in the action and walked around on the front bumper herself. 
As Drew was there longer, he got more and more comfortable around the fire engine. Soon he was running around the middle of the engine checking out the pumper controls.
And he was running around the fire engine getting ready to go to fires.
Drew climbed up onto the fire engine, although it was pretty high for him, so sometimes he needed a hand.
Drew also started to get more adventurous about touching things on the fire engine. At first he kept his hands to himself, but then he started to play with things. The fire engine was like a fun, big playground!
Kate, meanwhile, also wanted to take a turn with touching things. She was especially fascinated by this cord.
Here are a few pictures to remind Drew of what he saw on the fire engine. The pumper on this engine in all mechanical, so there is a lot to touch and see involved with controlling it. 
This is looking back over the pump toward the fire station. The address for the station was mounted on a . . . fire engine, of course!
Here's a view from above the fire engine on the stairs of the fire station. The fire engine looked very modern in such an old building!
Todd put on all his gear for Drew. We wanted Drew to see it because often little kids hide from firemen. That's not helpful, although I don't think it's an unusual reaction to seeing someone wearing this and sucking oxygen!
Drew got to hold Uncle Todd's spanner wrench. He looks quite official, doesn't he?
We needed a picture of Drew and Uncle Todd in his fire suspenders. A classic joke for you: Why do firemen always wear red suspenders? To hold their pants up! (groan)
Uncle Todd's a strong guy, he grabbed his nephew in one arm and his niece in the other. The combined weight of the two of them is still less than a full-size jaws of life!
Kate was fearless inside the fire engine, so eventually Drew had to join her. The two of them had a great time getting dirty around the fire engine. Luckily, we managed to keep Kate from putting anything in her mouth.
Kate went for the this flashlight inside the engine and for anything else she could get her little hands on.
We're moving on to the video portion of our trip! Uncle Todd took Drew in the back of the fire engine, rolled down the window, and then had the driver drive Drew out of the fire station inside the truck. Drew's eyes were big as saucers!Uncle Todd attempted to show Drew a hose, but Drew quickly scooted away. There were a number of things that Drew liked better when he was several feet away from them! As I mentioned, he warmed up to everything over time, but it was all a little too exciting for him at first.
As you can tell, we had a great trip to the fire station in Battle Creek. Thanks Uncle Todd! We'll be hearing about today for a while :)
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