Monday, October 5, 2009

Second Fire Training Facility in VT

There'll soon be a new firefighter training facility in the state.

WCAX TV reports that Senator Bernie Sanders, Governor Jim Douglas and other officials from around the state broke ground Monday on a new Burn Simulator Training Facility in Randolph Center is on the campus of Vermont Technical College behind the dairy farm and will provide hands-on training for first responders. This will be the second burn facility in the state, the other's in Pittsford. Chief of the Vermont Fire Academy Jim Litevich said the new facility will not only offer training for putting out fires, but will teach repelling, technical rescue, and confined space search and rescue. The new facility will be operational this coming spring.