Firefighters felt the heat over the weekend as they trained in a house on Garling Road that was donated to Clallam County Fire District No. 2.
“This gives us the opportunity to see real fire inside a real structure and see how it behaves, and the crews get a good experience pulling attack lines and going in to put out the fire,” said Jake Patterson, deputy chief of operations for Fire District No. 2. Firefighters took turns in attack teams as they extinguished fires Saturday in the two burn cells that were set up inside the building.
The rooms were reinforced with an extra layer of drywall to help the building survive as firefighters burned pallets and straw. A thermal imaging camera showed temperatures inside the home climbing past 300 degrees, which is much cooler than the fires firefighters are prepared to respond to, Patterson said.