VIDEO: The Sarasota County Fire Department took over a 75-year-old home before it is demolished, to use for life-saving drills.
It happened Thursday morning at 2065 Goldenrod Street in Sarasota.
Seven firefighters from Station eight, shift B, rushed into the home that a trainer engulfed with thick billows of smoke. The firefighters had zero visibility and were tasked with finding the “dummy,” to mimic saving a real life.
The training at this house was all possible because of the home’s construction superintendent, Thomas Hemingway. Hemingway got permission from the homebuilder, Courtyard Modern Builders, to donate this 1949 home to the fire department for training before it is demolished and rebuilt. “I’m a third-generation firefighter and it gets me excited,” said Hemingway.