Orange County Fire Authority
Station 22
Firefighters not only protect our community, they help children learn fire safety at tours of the station. They may speak to forty students or four, as is the case here with Lucy Montoya who has a day care center. All receive personal attention no matter the size of the group.
Firefighter Gil Camarena gives each child a helmet, then shows them how a computer prints out the location of a fire or medical emergency.
Gil tells the children that firefighters still go to class like they do.
Here is the station classroom equipped with a video player. The firefighters see tapes of new methods, and information from department headquarters. There is also a video camera unit that goes to major fires to record them for subsequent review.
Gil's next stop is the modern kitchen of the station, (with time out for tying shoes.)
Each firefighter chips in to buy food, and when you see a fire truck in front of a market they are inside stocking up.
The menu is by popular choice and there is no special cook. Each person who has a specialty will cook for that day.