PHOTO: The ride to school looked quite a bit different for a number of Maine Elementary School students Wednesday.
One student from each grade K-5 were picked to get picked up and taken to school in a Maine fire truck.
It was part of their "Fired Up for Reading" challenge. For every 30 minutes students read outside of school, they earned a ticket. Then a winner was picked from each grade.
For the students that were picked, it's a ride they won't soon forget.
"The fire truck it was pretty cool. You could see all the electronics and everything that they used," said 5th grader Lydia Sklitzky.
"It was pretty cool, but all of the buttons and levers they use looked pretty confusing," said 2nd grader Henry Lodahl.
The students were brought back to the Maine fire house, where they ate breakfast provided by REI.