Fighting Fire In Japan!

We've had many cool adventures with our friends Morio and Yukiko, but seeing the fire boat was the coolest! Nick's parents were with us at the time. Our friend Morio is a fireman and Nick's dad Bob is a retired fireman. So, of course, Morio set up a day of touring different fire fighting facilities. One of those facilities was a fire boat!

There are not many fire boats in the United States because they're usually located in big cities where buildings can be reached with water from the boat! Bob was a fireman in Colorado Springs and had nothing like this. This ship has long water canons that can shoot water up to 100yards give or take a few.
The crew not only let us walk around on the boat. But, they also let us go for a ride in it!! This is not a privledge that everyone has. I think it was a mixture of being a foreigner and being a fellow fire fighter! We didn't get to see them shoot the water though! That would have been the icing on the cake.It was interesting to see the engine room!
This is a picture with the great guys that took us on their boat!We also got see a few of their fire trucks. Yes, they are smaller than the ones that you see at home. We've seen trucks smaller than this one! They look like toys.
Some of the small fire trucks are still too big to go down some of the roads in Japan. They wheel this cart of hose down the narrow street and connect it to the water truck in order to get to the fire!
We also got to visit the fire training center that day. According to Bob, it blew American training facilities out of the water. We got to see some men there doing training on Recee-Annie.

Here's all the firemen together! We always have a full day when we go out with our friends Morio and Yukiko. I'm glad that we got to share this day with Nick's parents!