The Howard Fire Department can often be found at the former Farr's Grove Supper Club, doing training. “It's probably the best training, because these are the kind of buildings we might have to actually fight a fire in,” said Training Lieutenant, Chris Hohol of the Howard Fire Department.
The department often relies on donated buildings like this to do its training, but soon it will have its own facility.
“It will be a multipurpose training facility. We'll be able to do live fire training in there, although that's not the sole purpose. We'll be able to do things like rapid intervention training, our rope and technical rescue training, confined space rescue training,” said Lt. Hohol.
Firefighters have to complete about 100 hours of refresher training each year, as mandated by state and federal law.