Douglas fire fighters prepare for the real thing

By XAVIER ZARAGOZA
The Daily Dispatch
Published/Last Modified on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 3:07 PM MDT


More than 20 Douglas fire fighters sharpened their life-saving skills Monday morning in an all-station drill.


Douglas fire fighters participate in a training exercise to hone their skills.

The fire fighters were “loaned” an abandoned home so they could practice such maneuvers as body recovery, window, wall and ceiling breach and self-rescue.

In the self-rescue portion of the drill, a black hood was slipped over the fire fighters’ heads and they were asked to find their way out of a room. This exercise simulates a smoke-filled room. If a fire fighter found himself in such a situation, he would need to feel his way to a window or a door for his escape.

These drills are enormously useful because fire fighters can use an actual house in which to enhance their skills using tools that normally would be used on a house that is on fire.

The abandoned home, on the 1100 block of 6th Street, will be demolished and rebuilt into a new home.

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