VIDEO: Fire crews from more than 40 agencies across California are participating in a high-rise fire training drill in downtown Sacramento. The training kicked off Monday night in a vacant state office building at N and 4th streets. The Sacramento Fire Department reports that the month-long event is taking place in a building that, while currently unused, contains furniture and other items left behind, providing realistic obstacles for fire crews.
Liquid smoke is being used on the top floors to simulate the conditions firefighters would face in a real fire. “These are very high-risk situations and very low frequency. With the suppression systems that come with these high-rise fires, we don’t typically see a big fire happen in a high-rise. The sprinkler systems usually keep them in check. But, if it does overrun the sprinkler system and starts to grow, we need to know how to fight these fires,” said Justin Sylvia from the Sacramento Fire Department.
