Firefighters get hands-on training with donated houses
Firefighters from Moses Lake Fire Department’s C Shift enter a house that was donated to them for training purposes Monday.
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A live burn Saturday on a donated structure gave Grant County Fire District 5 and Moses Lake firefighters a chance to train together.
Firefighters compare notes after putting out a simulated fire at a house in Moses Lake. The house, and two others, were donated to the department by Moses Lake Community Health Center, which needs them out of the way for a road project.
MOSES LAKE — The alert that came out from MACC Dispatch Monday, that a house on East Terrace Avenue in Moses Lake was engulfed in flames with people inside, was part of an exercise with no actual fire or victims involved. Instead, it was designed to be a training simulating a real situation firefighters might respond to.
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