The Samoa Dragstrip area was transformed this morning into an emergency vehicle training course for Six Rivers National Forest fire management employees.
Tom Stokesberry, Engine 341 captain, said the course was a follow up to classroom discussions about emergency vehicle operation.
“We provide our students the opportunity to get behind the wheel and run code three, red lights and sirens, so when they do get into the real world and we’re responding to an incident, they have those memories and ‘slides’ in their heads of how that works,” he said.
The course includes a simulated construction zone, highway, country road, crosswalk, stoplight, an uncontrolled four-way intersection with vehicles coming through it, and “a couple individuals out there may be throwing a ball across the road,” Stokesberry said.