Homes don’t catch fire as often as they used to. That’s a good thing, but it does raise the issue of keeping local volunteer firefighters in practice. The Oakdale Fire Department addressed that issue Saturday with its annual training day. This year’s training was conducted on a residential structure owned by Ray Habelman in the town of Byron. Firefighters were able to use a house on the property to practice a wide variety of rescue and fire containment techniques. “We couldn’t do this without the property that was donated,” Oakdale Fire Department chief Bob Gnewikow said. State law requires local fire departments to conduct one live session per year. In a good year, it’s one of the few raging residential fires that Oakdale volunteers will encounter.