Do you know how many gallons of water Highland Falls Fire Department engine 429 holds? 750. Do you know how long that 750 gallons of water would last if the HFFD had to use it to fight a fire? Four minutes. Those were the types of things that Highland Falls Intermediate School students learned when the HFFD visited the school on November 2. “We’re here to talk to you about fire safety so that, hopefully, we never have to come to your house to fight a fire,” firefighter Jesse Marvin said. He and firefighters Harvey Green, Billy Solan and Clarissa Marvin, as well as Chief Erik Smith, talked about that basic safety (“charge your phone on a hard surface, not on your bed,”), how the HFFD is a volunteer organization, and what equipment they carry. They also led the students through Orange County’s ‘smoke house’ so that they could experience what to do if caught in a smoky fire.