Turns out, Montgomery Firefighters are not especially good at starting fires.
They scheduled a training event this morning during which they burned an old shotgun house on Montgomery's West Side, near West Fairview Avenue.
After smoking it up with smoldering hay bales for a while, and giving novice firefighters a chance to go into the smoke filled rooms, they sent in the fire-setter, who tired as best he could to get the place burning. It was a slow-go, finally using the fan normally used to expel smoke from a building, to instead blow oxygen in to get the fire going. Eventually it worked, but these guys are no Fahrenheit 451 types...they do a much better job (thank God!) putting them out. Some photos and a touch of video:
They scheduled a training event this morning during which they burned an old shotgun house on Montgomery's West Side, near West Fairview Avenue.
After smoking it up with smoldering hay bales for a while, and giving novice firefighters a chance to go into the smoke filled rooms, they sent in the fire-setter, who tired as best he could to get the place burning. It was a slow-go, finally using the fan normally used to expel smoke from a building, to instead blow oxygen in to get the fire going. Eventually it worked, but these guys are no Fahrenheit 451 types...they do a much better job (thank God!) putting them out. Some photos and a touch of video:
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