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Students enjoy year-end fun

BESSEMER - Washington Elementary School students learned about the bells and whistles inside emergency and law enforcement vehicles Tuesday afternoon and even got to throw a pie in the face of school staff and law enforcement as part of a fundraising effort.

Students climbed inside a Bessemer Fire Department fire truck, Michigan State Police Wakefield Post cruisers, a Beacon ambulance, a Gogebic County Sheriff's Department boat and up on a GCSD off-road vehicle.

MSP Trooper Jerry Mazurek said students had fun turning on the sirens and the flashing lights. "It's exciting stuff," he said.

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