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Firefighters run two-story rescue drill at approved burn facility
Summary
Firefighters conducted multi-day training this week at an approved burn facility simulating a two-story residential blaze with victims on both floors, practicing forcible entry, ladder placement, ventilation and incident-command communications to improve safety and accountability.
Speaker 1, a staff member, said, "We're out here doing training evolutions each each day this week. We change out the scenarios for the crews. We're also challenging some of the, younger guys who are gonna be acting officers in the future. This was an approved burn facility built to withstand all these hay and pallet fires. We get it to where they feel heat and the conditions are 0 visibility."
The exercise simulated a "two story residential fire with victims trapped on both floors," Speaker 1 said,…
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