4 She explained her son's wish and asked if it was possible to give him a ride on a fire engine.

5 Bob thought a while about what he could do and said, "Look, we can do better than that. Get your son ready at seven o'clock Wednesday morning. We'll make him an honorary firefighter for the whole day. He can come down to the fire station, eat with us, and go out on all the fire calls. And, if you give us his sizes, we'll get a real fire uniform made for him."

6 Three days later, Bob picked up Bopsy, dressed him in his fire uniform and escorted him from his hospital bed to the waiting hook-and-ladder truck. Bopsy got to sit on the back of the truck when they went back to the fire station. He was in heaven.