Superior firefighters got some real-world, high-risk training Monday to help rescue one of their own if they were to ever go down during a fire.
Fake smoke was pumped into a 5,000-square-foot storage facility behind the new fire station on Tower Avenue.
The drill included a two-person team searching through zero visibility for a fellow firefighter in distress with a depleting air pack.
Chief Scott Gordon said mayday situations are rare during a firefighter’s career, but he said his department can never be too prepared for when that time may come.
“If we do happen to have a mayday, we’re going to be much better prepared to act on that. The goal is to get the firefighters out as safely as we can, all the time. Firefighting is a dangerous job — obviously we all know that when we sign up for this career — but practicing to rescue each other is a skill we don’t often think about,” Gordon explained.