my virgin visit to the Central Fire Station!

fuahhh !! :D

thanks to Kris and Diana , i got this special opportunity to visit the Central Fire Station with a bunch of bloggers . call me noob but i don't care , it was my first time there leh ! there's a lot of photos okay , snap snap snap till crazy !! anyways , i went with quite a big group too including Mel ! our tour guide is called Captain Tan , correct me if i'm wrong thanks !! LTA Foo was too busy with his presentation thus it was another person taking us !

top row ; that's James who blogs at http://livinginsingaporetoday.com/ , and YES that's Qiu Ting who blogs at http://bongqiuqiu.blogspot.com/ ! i finally saw her in person but i couldn't recognize her at first HAHAHA .

middle row ; that's Clara who blogs at http://dblchin.blogspot.com/ , myself , Mel and Jeramy who blogs at http://whereisjeramy.blogspot.com/ ! i met Clara at the MOTOROLA DEXT event at the Helipad , The Central . and lastly Jeramy is one of the bloggers for http://polyorjc.sg/ better known as Jerm Boi !

bottom row ; needless to say , the si beh cool people of SCDF on their Red Rhino !! :D

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first off , lets start off with the AMBULANCE ! there's actually an ambulance in a fire station that will be dispatched whenever there's a call , but i can't remember the number already ! cannot prank call okay , it is somewhat important for it to be dispatch when there's an emergency .

we were lucky enough to get ourselves right inside the ambulance ! there's this stretcher which is damn heavy to lift it back into the ambulance , needless to say pulling it out ! the equipment and everything are so complicated i dare not land my hand on it just in case anything happen , HAHA !

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next , we are being introduced to the Pump Ladder ! before you start thinking , what the heck is a Pump Ladder .. the common term appropriately used would be fire engine . so why Pump Ladder ? this is because the vehicle is equipped with a DAMN HUGE PUMP and a LONG LONG LADDER combined which gives you .. yes , Pump Ladder !

there are various hoses in the PL of a wide range of sizes from big to small and one PL can store 2.4K liters of water ! that's enough to fight a fire for approximately 30~40 minutes and after that they would need a water hydrant .

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we even got up close and personal to what they wear when firefighting !! oh gosh , when Mel wore it he said there is this burnt charcoal smell lah ! HAHAHA . but when he wore them on he does look pretty cool aye !

colors make a vast difference so that we are able to differentiate their ranks , yellow suit with white helmets are senior officers , black suit with orange stripes and orange helmet are junior officers , lastly black suit with grey stripes and orange helmet are recruits loh !

and with such high traffic of vehicles in Singapore , the fire bike and Fast Response Paramedic bike were introduced next ! they may look similar from afar but when you're just standing next to it you can easily identify their difference ! the fire bike has its own tank of 12 liters [ i think so ! ] on the back which is able to tahan 10~15 minutes of firefighting . the FRP on the other hand , has a very heavy paramedic supplies on the back to support casualties ASAP !

the coolest thing of all would be the sliding pole in the fire station itself ! they demonstrated by showing us the standard drop down and the picture you see below would be the Singapore Style ! there's also a Combined Platform Ladder on display and brings people up to have a view for free ! of 'cos , there would be a queue lah so we went to play with the water guns first .

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here i got up close and personal with a firefighter fresh grad from National Service who got posted to SCDF and his name is Nazmi ! a shout-out to you Recruit Nazmi ; thanks for showing us how to use the water gun [ i have no better idea what is it called . ] and chatting with us about the Kallang River incident made us cringed but nonetheless it was a fruitful experience talking to a firefighter which is like younger than me by a year !

me and Mel with Nazmi !! :D

finally it was time to get on the Combined Platform Ladder which is like the grand highlight of everything , niahaha ! to be honest it wasn't really scary but there was one moment it shook because the person whom operated the machine turned its direction ! HAHAHA .

did i mention , if the fire alarm rings .. you have to stop whatever you are doing and CHIONGGG down to the PL and get off to action ! oh my .. and when i say stop whatever you are doing , includes your big big business in the toilet !

very old school hor !

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last but not least , we made a special request of having a firefighter to full gear , which means what they will normally wear when they fight a fire ! man .. imagine you have to change into full gear in a minute , quite impossible lorh !! this fireman took his time as it was just a demonstration but the real thing will be pretty damn different lah HAHAHA .

ending off with a group photo ! :3 after everything was done , i went to Lucky Plaza for lunch with Mel , Clara , Qiu Ting and Diana . delicious ayam penyet and sides and barley to go along , -nom nom nom- ! it was definitely a great morning ~ afternoon out with fun bloggers and meeting new bloggers too , heh !

p/s ; first and last photo taken from Diana !