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ABOVE: Champaign Fire Academy students take a break during training hosted by the Danville Fire Department on John Street.
If you were anywhere near the 800 block of North John Street, just south of Fairchild in Danville on Thursday (June 4th), you most likely noticed some firefighter training going on. Danville Fire Captain and Training Officer Ryan Allison explained to CIMG that they were hosting some Champaign Fire Academy students, and said that it’s an arrangement that works out very well when it comes to sharing costs; and giving Danville one less tear down to worry about.
AUDIO: We have to get permits from the EPA to do the burning. We have to do a burn plan, we have to put everything together. And so, part of that is trying to reduce those costs to the taxpayers, while also improving the neighborhood and getting rid of blight.
Captain Allison stated that while the day ended with training on a complete burn of the house marked as a tear down by the City of Danville; the morning and early afternoon sessions were all about various, as the training term goes, “evolutions.”
AUDIO: In the morning they did a couple evolutions where they had a mannequin in there. We just put smoke in the building, no fire; made it decrease visibility where they had to go in and try and find the mannequin and bring him out. They progressed into live fire drills; where we had actual fire in the building in different set locations. And they would take a hose line in, extinguish the fire; and send a crew in to try and search and see if there’s a victim in there.
Allison added that the Champaign Fire Academy students were getting training that is required for state certification.
