Sunday morning, we went the Hubei fire station. The second I got off the car, what I saw was four big parking spaces for the firetrucks and a large building.
We first went in to the building to learn how to escape from a fire. One of the ten firefighters talked about the ways to escape from a fire. We learnned to have a wet towel and put
it over your noses and mouth so that smoke won't get in your lungs. You may take a rope or ripped bed sheets to climb down from high buildings. When the firefighters come, they will let you jump down and you will safely land on an air bed. When you call 119, discribe how big the fire is, so the firefighters know how many firetrucks they should use. But most of all, when there is a fire, don't panic, wait patiently for the firefighters to save you.
Next, the fighter showed us what equipment they use during a fire. There was a big scissors-like thing that could cut iron into pieces! And a gun-like thing that could blast a brick into pieces! We saw the firetrucks that could reach 52 meters high(30 floors). Man! their bed sheets are rough. I thought it would take me 10 minutes to fold those, but the firefighters were simply amazing. They could dress, wash their teeth and get down stairs in only 60 seconds! I asked one of the firefighters when they wake up, and he said they wake up at 5:30 in the morning and were ready every moment for an emergency.
Because time was running out, we had to go back. On the bus, I thought about how these hardworking firefighters train everday just to save our lives in a real fire. We should thank them.
