Student firefighters have been hard at work learning new skills, with rescues involving a downed firefighter and auto crash extractions happening over the last few weeks. Navigating themselves under a fire truck to rescue someone was a challenge.
“We were practicing removing a downed firefighter from a blacked-out and confined space,” junior Tristen Johnson said. “Firefighters were pushed to their limits and had to go through small and tight spaces to extricate a firefighter.”
While the training was a challenge, students had fun.
“One of my favorite things during the blackout drill was figuring out ways to go under the fire truck and save the downed firefighter,” freshman Kaden Farmer said. “We were pushed to our limits.”
Students also spent a Saturday earlier ths month in the school parking lot learning how to extricate someone trapped in a wreck.
