Selfies: Local fire crews train to battle natural gas flames
- Area firefighters gear up for the natural gas fire simulation training near the old rodeo grounds in Glenwood Springs.
- Local firefighters listen in during a debriefing before the start of a natural gas fire simulation training put on by Black Hills near the Glenwood Springs Airport.
- Area firefighters gear up for the natural gas fire simulation training near the old rodeo grounds in Glenwood Springs.
- A local firefighter practices using the Purple K fire extinguisher during a natural gas “pit fire” scenario which was meant to resemble a broken line caused by digging.
- Black Hills Safety Professaional Arlen Thompson shows a local firefighter how to use the Purple K natural gas fire extinguisher during a simulation resembling that of an impingement fire.
- A local firefighter practices using the Purple K fire extinguisher during a natural gas “pit fire” scenario which was meant to resemble a broken line caused by digging during a training seminar at the old rodeo grounds in Glenwood Springs.
- A band of firefighters work together to contain a natural gas fire during a simulation training near the Glenwood Springs Airport.
- A fire trainee looks on as a group of firefighters take part in a natural gas fire simulation training near the Glenwood Springs Airport.
- Black Hills Safety Professional Arlen Thompson leads a group of area firefighters through a natural gas fire simulation training which took place near the Glenwood Springs Airport.
- Black Hills Safety Specialist Arlen Thompson leads a group of area firefighters through a natural gas fire containment simulation.
- Firefighters learn how to contain a natural gas fire in the fifth scenario which resembled what would happen if a car ran over natural gas equipment.
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