Fire Training for assistant chiefs underway

PRINCE GEORGE – Some aspiring assistant fire chiefs was at the airport this week doing some unique training.

“The idea of this training is for assistant chief pool class, to go over cause and origin of the fire,” says Kip Skaar, Chief Training Officer for the Prince George Fire Department.

Courtesy of RONA, who donated the wood, and the Salvation Army, who donated the furniture, four “rooms” of a house were built in four different “boxes.” Each “room” would be lit on fire using different accelerants. Half of the trainees would put the fires out, knowing the cause, while the other half, who don’t know the cause, would try to determine the origin. After that, the two halves would compare notes. The roles are reversed in the second “room” and so on.