Summer Wish, 3, and Hudsen, 2, sit on the bumper of a fire engine.

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A fireman helps a child out the window of the safety house, where kids learned how to exit a home safely during a fire.

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Theo Beck, with his father Jason, dressed for the occasion..

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A Weston EMT shows Cooper Moore, 6, how to listen to his heartbeat.

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A fireman shows kids the weight of the mallet used to break the windows to get into a car.

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Weston firefighters demonstrate the Jaws of Life.

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A fire truck from the 1930s.

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Children and their parents got an up-close peek into the firefighter's world Saturday at the Weston Volunteer Fire Department Open House. Kids wore plastic fireman's helmets and held fire truck balloons as they were shown how to escape a house safely in a fire, drive a fire engine and douse a blaze with a fire hose, with the help of some real firefighters. And all watched in amazement as crews pried open a van with the Jaws of Life.