Hundreds of firefighters are training in preparation for this year’s fire season. "So today is the second day of the Central Washington Interagency Fire Training Academy here in Gleed," said Miles Pollack, Assistant Fire Unit Manager, Washington Department of Natural Resources (DNR). The annual week long training brings in 500 firefighters from multiple agencies. "This training really incorporates every agency out there. I mean we've got BIA, National Parks, we've got Fish and Wildlife, we've got Forest Service. We've got, you know volunteer departments out here, and we have the Department of Natural Resources, and really we'll be seeing these people on fires everywhere we go," said Ryan Kindler, Firefighter Type 2, DNR. New and returning firefighters all come to the academy, "It gives us ways of doing everything safely. I mean our jobs are already as dangerous as it can get," said Kindler.