smester test the fire trucks

The top fire truck is a pumper the second fire truck aerial an aerial is a ladder truck that goes higher than 1feet in the air. Some aerial have a basket the basket is so firefighters can rescue people easier. 

The lags on the aerial keep the truck from tipping. The mars light are the emergency lights. The ladder is on a boom. The boom is  what raises the ladder up and down. 

The pumper truck is to pump water through the hoses so they can put out the fire. They can control the pounds of presser of water that go through the hose.  They control the pump at the pump panel. The pump panel has lots of levers and has gages to tell what the water presser that is going through the hose. The pumper usually has has lots of hose is on it. The pumper has lots of hook ups for the hoses.

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the fire dept.

The fire station in Storm lake  it has 10 rooms. The rooms are the chiefs office and a bed room that has to beds, the living room has 3 recliners a T.V and a couch, the next room is the kitchen the next room is a meeting room then there are two bath rooms and the truck room is where the fire trucks are kept. there is a shop that has the tools to work on the trucks with. The last room is a storage room where the stuff that we don't use a lot is where that stuff is stored. The Storm Lake fire dept. has 7 fire trucks