When he hears that fire alarm...

In early April, Sarah and Megan decided they were going to move Megan into Sarah's room. They did this, bed and all, while Me and I were still in bed. Matthew was so sad that Megan was not in his room anymore! To cheer him up, we asked if he wanted to make some decorating changes in his room. We couldn't build him a fire pole or the bed he wanted but we did decide to turn his bookshelf into a fire station.

Forgot to get a before picture. It was all that light green color. It had been that way since Sarah was a baby. This was after doing the grey and starting the red.

Everyone wanted to help! We learned that 4 people painting a bookshelf in the garage is too many!

After 3 coats, the red looks pretty even. The Helipad had been installed to allow the flight for life crew to be based here.

Now we need to make sure people can get from floor to floor. The only true way to do that of course is to install a fire pole. We assume that the firefighters all use it to go up as well.  We also installed bells on every floor to allow them to hear and respond.  The bottom shelves aren't going to have much on them so we can encourage books to go there.

Firefighters need things to do when not working so we put in some weights to make them strong and a couch to hang out on.

We also installed some beds and lockers.

What is that big white rectangle?

It is the city map!  The command center also has a new desk.  We also installed some axes and ladders.

The exterior of the building finally got some windows as well.

Every fire station needs some fancy front door. This station is station number 9, so named because it matches the station in the excellent book, Fireman Small.  

We also installed a chair at the operations desk.

To meet code, a fire escape was installed on the back side of the building.  What is that sign down at the bottom?

I'm not sure what he is running for but I would plan on voting for him.

This is one happy fireman.