Fire Museum and coffee

Today I made it back over to the Fire Museum because I am now the subway master and it was cool! Very impressive layout and well done. Was interesting to see how the ancient Shogun’s handled firefighting hundreds of years before the United States as we know it was born. They focused heavily on “destruction firefighting” where they would destroy houses ahead of the fire to stop the spread as they were all so closely built. The Samurai were not only responsible for protecting the towns from enemies but from fires as well! Was a fascinating tour and interesting to learn about all they have learned from earthquake response, human nature during disasters, and how similar we all are today in terms of equipment and procedures. They even had a fire department helicopter simulator you could sit in and fly around Tokyo. I brought many of our class coins but unfortunately there just wasn’t the opportunity for me to give them to the on-duty shift as they were doing medical training with the same mannequins we have in shop :)