The department says they are done to ensure all of the equipment and the trucks are ready for whatever may occur.
They advise it takes a whole to go through all of the checklists but they say recently it was made a bit easier when you have an official clipboard holder of a young family member of a firefighter.
Fire Prevention Officer James Marshall added in a reply that he would countless times respond to the hall with a back seat of kids where someone would meet up to watch them or a spare firefighter would stay at the hall with multiple families worth of children until something could be arranged.
This photo really brings back memories.
Countless times I would respond to the hall with a back seat full of kids. Someone would meet me there to watch them.
Or a firefighter would stay at the hall with multiple families worth of children until something else could be arranged https://t.co/an1LglIwfY— James Marshall (@fpomarshall) August 22, 2022