Our friends in Portland are friends with a fire fighter who happens to be the head of Portland's emergency management system. On Monday afternoon, not all that long after a night shift during which he fought two fires, the lieutenant took the eight of us on an amazing and very thorough tour of the "Big House", Portland's fire station number one. He showed us all the fire fighting and medical equipment, answered scores of questions, demonstrated sliding down the pole (a fire station that still uses fire poles!), and even let us squirt the fire hose! Let me just say that even the smallest hose has quite a kick to it!
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