Fire Expo

On a beautiful Saturday afternoon, my family and I went out for a free entertainment to Fire Expo. It was an awesome experience for all of us. The place was taken next to Qualcomm Stadium, a Charger football field.

Speaking of outside of Qualcomm Stadium, I learned an interesting fact about having a "temporary" fire station in the city of Mission Valley. Actually, the city of Mission Valley did not realize that there is NO Fire Station after they had a real Cedar/San Diego Fire 2003. Can you image that the people hollered for a help when there was a REAL fire in 2003? Thus, they had to call the other city to come out for help. Who would blame for the people that live in Mission City got furious after discovering that they did not have their own fire station, even we pay our taxes for the city !?! Well, in order to prevent from recurrence the mistake, the city of Mission Valley only can put a temporary fire station next to the Qualcomm Station until there is enough money to build a real Fire Station. I think this is something all of us should check whether our home city has a fire and police station. It would be saving you and your loved ones life.

While we were there, we had an opportunity to see a temporary fire station-- a small ones. My family and I even saw more than just a fire station. There were variety different kinds of fire trucks, helicopter, food, and activities. Everything was free to do for an entertainment except for the food. We only spend $15 dollars for the combo food: hot dog, chips,drinks and snow cones. Cheap, huh? The boys also had a chance to dress up as a fireman.

The boys took their advantage to have lots of fun. They even had learned about the fire safety when they entered in a fire safety house. In three different mobiles, they demonstrated about the smokes, fire safety (hot pot, fireplaces, toaster), staying low and climbing down safety. Once the boys learned about the safety, each of them earned a badge. Boy, Dylan was so proud by earning so many badges.

At the end of a long afternoon, we saw the firetruck parades and a helicopter dropping the water show. One of the fire truck shows, the man climbed up to 100 feet up in the air. Dylan couldn't bear to watch this show, and prayed he would not get hurt. Ryan just LOVED the helicopter show. He kept asking me, "Where did the helicopter go?" after they flew out of Qualcomm Stadium to get a bundle of water. Standing patiently was a worthwhile paid off-- to watch the water dropping off the ground.As we were there for five hours, we would assume it would knock our boys off. Boy, we were wrong. They kept telling us they had a good time. What a relief to hear the comment from our sons. It was a worthwhile entertainment since we found a way to go out for FREE and HAVE FUN!