VIDEO: A crowd of students gathered outside of Warren Tech North in Lakewood on Monday for a project that brought together young Coloradans from different classes. Much of their classroom learning led to this moment. “That was a big part to be able to first learn it in the classroom and figure out what we were going to do, then go out and apply it,” said senior Jesse Jerome.
Warren Tech is a career and technical educational center open to juniors or seniors in Jefferson County high schools. In Monday morning’s demonstration, students from fire sciences, building trades, criminal justice and forensic science all came together to work in tandem.
The trades students built a mockup of a room of a house. A pig cadaver was placed in the room to simulate a dead body. The room was supposed to be made up to look like an arson had occurred. And then they lit it on fire. First up were the fire sciences students, of which Jerome is one. Under the supervision of South Metro Fire Rescue crews, they put out the blaze. “It’s honestly really crazy,” Jerome said after fighting his first ever fire. “You’re feeling it on your mask more than anything.”
