PHOTOS: At her kindergarten graduation last year, Lucy O’Donnell held up her hands in the air, vexed.
Where was the fire truck?
Since her dad is a firefighter, of course he’d be bringing it with him, she thought.
But her dad, Brian O’Donnell was stuck at work and had no idea she was expecting the big yellow engine. When he found out, he promised Lucy he’d make it up to her another time.
And on Wednesday, he did.
Brian is one of a handful of “fire dads” with kids attending Indian Hills Elementary who teamed up to bring their fire trucks for a show-and-tell the students won’t soon forget.
Firefighters from the city of Pocatello, the Bureau of Land Management, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and Idaho National Laboratory spent the morning teaching kids about fire prevention and what it’s like to be a structure or wildland firefighter.