The Mansfield Fire Museum — Local services in Mansfield

This museum is free, but is only open on Saturdays and Sundays from 1-4 in the afternoons. It is small, but very organized and informative! It has a lot of antique fire equipment as well as newer trucks, and is well labeled! There is a nice display of 9-11 memorabilia, and two fairly large cases with collections of toy and model fire trucks donated by a couple different families. We really enjoyed wandering around there and stayed for around an hour and a half. The man who was staffing it that day is a current fireman himself for over 24 years, and was very pleasant to visit with and very knowledgeable about fire fighting in general, and the museum in particular as well. We were there after closing time for probably over a half hour...

My son and I showed up to visit based off the hours listed from Google to find out they were closed. A man pulled up right after we did and asked if we were waiting for someone. We told him we were there to see the museum and he informed us that it wasn't open. We were going to just go else where to find something to do (we live over an hour away) but he insisted we come in. He was there to do some work and reassured us it wasn't a problem. He was so nice about it and my son and I...

We took 7 of our grandchildren here. It was a very hands-on educational experience for them. They even have a simulator smoke room complete with smoke and an alarm. The guide was very good at instructing the children what to do in case the alarm goes off and there's smoke. They did a drill where the children were put in bedrooms with the door shut. Fake smoke filled the hall, and the alarm went off. The children opened their door and crawled down the...