VIDEO: Firefighters from East Texas and other states gathered in Kilgore Friday to complete a course teaching them the basics of wildland firefighting. Participants learned about the specifics of wildland firefighting as well as how to dig a fireline and how best to rescue a downed firefighter when in the wilderness. โItโs helped us,โ said Kilgore firefighter Brian Greene. โHelped me be able to understand how to read the fire and understand the weather, whatโs pushing the fire, the topography that weโre going to be dealing with.โ Many of the participants are already firefighters but took the class to gain more skills to better help the communities of East Texas. โI just recently graduated the fire academy, last week,โ said Lindale firefighter Jessica Wilkinson.ย
