Observer photo/Stuart Hedstrom
TRAINING SESSION -- Approximately 20 firefighting trainees from more than a half dozen departments across the region took part in a live burn session on the morning of Sunday, Aug. 22 at the Milo Fire Department’s testing site at the Eastern Piscataquis Business Park. Participants had the opportunity to extinguish blazes in a controlled setting under the watchful eye of trainers, veteran firefighters, and chiefs.
Observer photo/Stuart Hedstrom
TRAINING SESSION -- Approximately 20 firefighting trainees from more than a half dozen departments across the region took part in a live burn session on the morning of Sunday, Aug. 22 at the Milo Fire Department’s testing site at the Eastern Piscataquis Business Park. Participants had the opportunity to extinguish blazes in a controlled setting under the watchful eye of trainers, veteran firefighters, and chiefs.
Observer photo/Stuart HedstromTRAINING SESSION — Approximately 20 firefighting trainees from more than a half dozen departments across the region took part in a live burn session on the morning of Sunday, Aug. 22 at the Milo Fire Department’s testing site at the Eastern Piscataquis Business Park.
Observer photo/Stuart Hedstrom TRAINING SESSION — Approximately 20 firefighting trainees from more than a half dozen departments across the region took part in a live burn session on the morning of Sunday, Aug. 22 at the Milo Fire Department’s testing site at the Eastern Piscataquis Business Park. Participants had the opportunity to extinguish blazes in a controlled setting under the watchful eye of trainers, veteran firefighters, and chiefs. Observer photo/Stuart Hedstrom HEADING IN — Firefighting trainees head in, replicating going inside a burning structure, during an Aug. 22 training session in Milo. Departments taking part included host Milo along with Brownville, Dover–Foxcroft, Greenville, Guilford, Sangerville, and Wellington.Observer photo/Stuart Hedstrom
SEEING THROUGH THE SMOKE — Participants in fire training session get ready to replicate going through a smoke-filled building. Observer photo/Stuart Hedstrom HOSE WORK — A crew uses a hose to simulate dosing a fire during a Sunday morning training session in Milo.Observer photo/Stuart Hedstrom
REACHING UP — Ladder work was part of the drills for firefighting trainees from around the region on the morning of Aug. 22. Observer photo/Stuart Hedstrom AT THE READY — A group of firefighters awaits the signal to spray with their hose. In a Facebook post, the Brownville Fire Department Auxiliary thanked all the participants, instructors and others taking part.
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