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Planned blazes provide goo
Last week the needs
of a general contractor
and local fire. depart-
ments dovetailed together
nicely.
Wimco General Con-
tractors, which is building
a new Dollar General on
Shelby Rd., needed an old
brick house out of its way.
The Kings Mountain Fire
Department, for its part,
is always looking for a
structure to set on fire for
training purposes.
On Thursday after-
noon, after acquiring the
proper approval from
the state fire marshall
and county authorities,
firefighters from the city
joined volunteers from
the Bethlehem Fire De-
partment, the Oak Grove
Fire Department and the
Grover Fire Department
in placing pallets of straw
tinder in the three-bed-
room brick house. The
training fires are a joint
venture between local
fire departments and the
Cleveland Community
College’s fire training de-
partment.
- Just after sundown, the
structure was set ablaze
and within minutes more
than two dozen firefight-
- ers were presented with a
valuable training exercise,
according to Jamie Black,
the assistant fire chief for
the KM Fire Department.
The garage next to the
house was also part of the
planned blaze.
Firefighters, both sea-
soned and new to the job,
practiced ceiling sweep
nozzle pattern tech-
niques they would use in
a real-life situation where
lives and property could
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be on the line.
By 11 p.m. the site was
reduced to smoldering
rubble, with the exception
of most of the house’s
brick walls. It was actually
the second night in a row
of good practice for local
firefighters. The general
contractor on the Dollar
General had requested a
burn of an adjacent build-
ing the night before.
Black said that most
training fires are set
during the day, but these
two cases were different
because of the schedule
and time constraints of the
contractor for the Dollar
General site.
“It’s good to have them
at night, too,” Black said.
“It’s actually fitting be-
cause we do encounter
a lot of night-time house
fires.”
Fire (Thursday night): A firefighter monitors a planned training fire of a structure on Shelby
Rd. Thursday night. Four local fire departments got some valuable training out of the brick
house fire.
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Next day (Friday): Blackened brick is almost all that’s left after local firemen extinguished a raging fire on Shelby Rd. Thursday night that was set for training purposes.
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