Thursday, February 12, 2015

Emergency Vehicles Visit

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After making our fruit box vehicles we were fortunate to have a couple
             of visits from people that work in our community.
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    The first was the RCMP.  They brought two cars for us to investigate.
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We looked over the outside of the vehicle and under the hood (learned the word ‘engine’) then opened the doors.  We noticed a lot of lights on the police cars.
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Then we climbed inside and saw their computer and radio and imagined what it would be like to drive it.  We also sat in the back, which was a bit squished, and wondered who sits there and looks through the glass to the officers in the front.


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               Then today a tow truck came to the school.
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    This is a family run company with husband and wife as drivers. 
              They came to share their vehicle and job with us.
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It was raining pretty hard so not many children came outside.  That is until
        they peeked out the window and saw my car being winched up.
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The children were offered the chance to use the levers to lift my car up and down. 
Hmmm, a question for the children will be "how can we add levers to our fruit box tow truck?"
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The driver showed us the hook that they would use to turn a car over if it
        had flipped.  We saw the winch working at the other end.
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     But oh, oh, I locked my keys in the car!  How do they open the door?
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It took him about a minute to open the door using special tools.  We got to
           play with the blow up tool (sorry I didn’t get the proper name).
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We noticed these small wheels in the back of the truck.  What are they for?
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Within minutes Damien had them off and under my car ready to lift it totally off the ground.  They are used if a vehicle has all wheel transmission or if the back wheels are damaged and can’t turn.
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           It was an awesome way to learn more about emergency vehicles. 
I love our community that when asked they will share their time and jobs with
                                              us.