Houston Fire Museum

I wanted to find something fun for the boys to do today that would be easy on Coleman and not require a lot of walking. Seemed like a perfect day for a trip to the Houston Fire Museum! This is a small museum in downtown Houston that I'd wanted to take them to for a while. They had so much fun! And I got some answers to what those weird things are that I see in Richard Scarry's Busiest Fire Fighters Ever book.

When you first walk in, they have this old fire truck that the kids can climb on.

Then there's a Junior Fire Fighter Room with the front of a real fire truck. The kids can put on fire coats and helmets, sit behind the wheel, turn on the lights, and talk on the radio.

Here's Fireman Spence driving!

And here's Fireman Coleman! He would pick up the radio and say into it, "We can't get by! There's a fire in the pass! We're going to turn around. We're four blocks away." He had so much fun!

Neither of the boys wanted to slide down the pole, but Spence enjoyed playing at the bottom. Coleman was afraid he would hurt himself where he had his surgery. I never thought he would be so cautious!


The ladder on the left is just like one in Busiest Fire Fighters Ever. That's one of the boys' favorite books, so we read it a lot. I had always wondered what that was, so today I had a chance to learn about it. It was one of the earlier ladders fire fighters used. They would use the hook to break the 2nd floor window, then climb up the wooden pegs. Then they could break out the 3rd floor window, climb up, and so forth until they got as high as they needed. Mystery solved!