Fire departments from all over the country have flocked to Fairborn to study fire and firefighter safety.
Underwriters Laboratories, a fire safety research group, has conducted fire experiments in Fairborn since Sept. 13. Their final experiment will be on Thursday, a researcher said.
Fairborn Fire Chief Dave Reichert said this week’s study was one of the first done on a commercial building. “Fairborn has the ability to impact firefighting worldwide,” Reichert said.
A number of different fires were lit in the old Skyway Shopping Plaza on Kauffman Avenue, which will be demolished after the study and become the city’s new public works facility. Fairborn, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Beavercreek and Goshen fire departments helped put out the fires.