Anaheim : Firefighters to Display Skills to Public Today
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Firefighters from four county departments will display their skills for the public today at the annual Fire Service Day at the Fire Training Center next to Anaheim Stadium.
The annual event involves firefighters and firefighting equipment from Anaheim, Garden Grove, Stanton and Orange, cities that share communication facilities for fire emergencies. The event will run from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the center at 2400 E. Orangewood Ave.
Demonstrations of firefighting techniques will include attacks on a simulated fire in a training tower by fire engines and a helicopter. There will also be a simulated removal of an injured person from the top of the tower.
After those demonstrations, firefighters using hydraulic prying equipment will show how they extricate an injured person from auto accidents when there is no other way to get into a damaged car.
“We get old wrecked cars from the junkyard,” said Garden Grove Battalion Chief Bernie Heimos, “and show how we sometimes have to literally cut a car apart.”
The free event is held each year on Fire Service Day, proclaimed on the second Saturday in May by the International Assn. of Fire Chiefs. Filmed presentations, fire trucks and other exhibits will also be on display.
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