Holiday Magic Express: Milwaukee firefighters surprise students, teachers with gifts on city's south side

MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- Opening a Christmas gift is nice but watching a child open a present may be even better -- especially when it's a surprise. That happened Thursday morning at Kagel Elementary School on Milwaukee's south side. 

Milwaukee firefighters, working with the Daisie Foundation, dropped in on the school to hand out presents to the unsuspecting students, plus presents and a surprise lunch for the teachers and staff. 

Fire Chief Aaron Lipski called the event "a bright spot in the season."

"We have some tough times," Chief Lipski said. "Everybody has tough times, right? And you come in here and you see that, you know what? If I give something, if I just give time, I give a gift, you can really watch, you can watch it light up a kid's face."

The Daisie Foundation calls this event the Holiday Magic Express and has hosted them at 33 different schools in Milwaukee, Chicago and Houston.