Paramedic Daryl Doring demonstrates how a stethoscope works with some help from Jack Keykpo, a first grader from Dayton Elementary School. Students visited the Dayton Fire Department Wednesday, Oct. 7 for Fire Safety Day. Classes rotated through about a half-dozen different stations where they learned all kinds of safety tips, saw emergency vehicles up-close including a fire tanker truck and a police car, and got the chance to "play fire fighter" by spraying a real hose at a miniature makeshift house. Photos by Mindy Mateuszczyk

Madison Schaefer tries her hand at spraying the fire hose at a small burning house made out of plywood and red nylon fringe (representing flames). Most of the first graders say the using the fire hose is their favorite activity during the Dayton Fire Safety Day coordinated with Dayton Elementary School and the Dayton Fire Department.