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June 26, 2009

Anonymous The Daily Independent Fri Jun 26, 2009, 10:41 AM EDT

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Thirty-eight volunteer firefighters ran into a burning building Tuesday afternoon — five times.

The exercise across Main Street from the Westwood Fire Department was a live burn of a house due to be demolished. State trainers ran the cycles of volunteer firefighters from regional departments through the house for five hours. The trainers used bales of straw and wooden pallets to light fires repeatedly in the two-story farm house.

Inexperienced firefighters learned to deal with flames rolling over their heads, the intense heat, and vision restriction from the thick smoke.

Similar training in the region can be had in a fire tower in Wurtland and another in Ashland.

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