4/23/14 - Thursday marks a course requirement that most students would never normally complete - running into a burning building. 26 students will be completing their final practical training exercise and take part in a âlive burnâ tomorrow. The training is the culmination of a yearâs worth of coursework for the students currently enrolled in Howell High School's firefighters 1 & 2 program. Students will be entering a three-story burn tower to experience a live fire up close. While wearing their protective bunker gear and self-contained breathing apparatus, students will be take part in several exercises such as observing how a fire begins, grows and behaves in a building, pulling hose lines into the building and performing search and rescue operations. The exercise will take place late Thursday morning at the Hamburg Township Fire Department training grounds. (JM)
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