The ride along that didn't happen

So here is something interesting. I posted about taking the kids to the fire station and how I wanted to go on a ride along. (Some weird hobby of mine.) Well it's been a while since I've been on one and I was all set up to go on one with shift A last Friday, and when I called Courtney, the female on shift A, in the morning to ask her if we were all set for that night, she told me that I couldn't do it that day because they didn't have their engine at the station because it was at a police shoot out early that morning and it was taken for examination because it was evidence. What good is a fire station full of firefighters without a fire truck? You would think that they would have made it a priority to get the truck back before anything else. Anyway, I was bummed out that I didn't get to go but we will reschedule for another day. I'm glad that I didn't do the ride along the night before; that's not the kind of action I'm looking for in a ride along with the F.D. Here is a link to the news story.
http://www.azcentral.com/12news/news/articles/2008/06/20/20080620abrk-mandeadinshooting-CP.html