BRECKENRIDGE, Colo.-
Summit County firefighters are looking for a volunteer: someone who will donate their home.
They need to burn a house down for practice. Usually someone volunteers a structure every year but so far no one has stepped forward.
“There is nothing that replaces the benefits of live fire training,” said Capt. Paul Kuhn, director of the High Country Training Center. “While the fire departments routinely run drills together and work in controlled propane-generated fires at the Training Center, the opportunity to test skills, firefighting tactics and strategies in a real structure, developing fire training scenarios cannot be emphasized enough.”
Kugh said the firefighters like to do it in the relatively quiet months of April or May.
He said a homeowner who plans to destroy a structure can save money because after it is burned there will only be a third as much to haul away.
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Information from the Summit Daily
