VIDEO: In preparation of warmer weather and fire season, Saturday (3/23/2024) local firefighters performed live fire training in Grants Pass.
At the 1500 block of Murphy Creek Road in Grants Pass, different agencies collaborated on their live fire training. It’s a type of training that firefighters say is as close as it gets to simulating a real structure fire and that’s because it is a real structure fire, albeit a controlled one. Fire agencies like Rural Metro Fire and Grants Pass Fire and Rescue were donated a house that was not in use for training. Rural Metro Fire Operations Chief Austin Prince said,
“We have our crews be able to navigate stairwells, some interior rooms are more divided off to more living rooms, bedrooms, kitchens and it gives the interior feel and navigation paths they have to take a little bit more realism.”