Feuerwehr Gelsenkirchen

The boys took a field trip to the Gelsenkirchen fire department.  

The fire service has some of the most state of the art equipment they have ever seen.  Here's Tobi and Jeff in the passenger compartment of an engine.

Their trucks work on a container system.  So, depending on the type of call, the firemen will load the appropriate container ... a water rescue container has different equipment than the one they would take when responding to a structure fire or a hazardous material call.  

This crane loads the various containers in just a couple of minutes .. and it's operated by one person!

Here's an ambulance.

Pa made fast friends with the Battalion Chief Klaus Jacob.  One could say they had a few things in common.