When I was here in Aug, it was a quiet Monday. Not much was going on. Fire station doors were closed. Today, both the main bays and their small museum area were open.
original Ketchikan engine
with a couple of closer looks
inside the back, are two rows of benches which I am going to presume were for men and gear.
After wandering back out, I found one of the crew hosing down the entry way. I stopped to chat and got a look at this beauty. Brand new this month, this ladder truck has just about all the bells and whistles to get it in just about anywhere. Ladders, rescue equipment, etc. etc. etc.
I am impressed.
Tomorrow is Juneau, then Skagway, then sailing (perhaps) by glaciers before returning to Seattle.
As we went up Prince William Sound a few years ago, the catamaran owner pointed out peaks with receding glaciers and ones that were covered in beautiful growing green, and said, You see that? All of us who live here remember when all of those were covered in glaciers. It takes two years after one loses theirs for it to turn green like that. Two years.