oh boy, a fire!

Before you ask, this was a controlled burn put on by the City of Fort Myers Fire Department for training purposes. I don’t normally randomly stop and gawk at fires, let my children play near fires, or take pictures of fires. We were on the back side of the burn (unfortunately downwind at times!), but apparently there was a hot dog stand set up around on the other side. The girls and I had just come from a little ballet show at the Alliance for the Arts (pictures from that coming soon), so I had the camera with me anyway. Too bad Michael wasn’t with us; I think he would have enjoyed it more than they did.

I don’t know why we were standing in a lake. This is not water runoff from the house; it was coming from a valve or something on the bottom of the truck. When the truck wasn’t spraying, the water wasn’t coming out. Is it a pressure valve or something? If you know, please tell me what it is and if it’s a normal byproduct of a fire truck in action.

Just like last time, click on the thumbnail to see any of the little pictures bigger. For my curious P2 visitors, this gallery setup is not part of the P2 theme; it’s done using free WP plugins.