PGFD Burn House

So a resident of Pleasant Grove donated a home he just bought to the Fire Dept. to demolish it for him. It would cost him close to $30,000 I was told to have it destroyed, but by donating it to us, we get to train in it and burn it down for him, for free. :) The house was dividing roughly into 3 parts, for each shift. So each Saturday for the next month or so, we'll be training here.

The first Saturday I was there, we breached through the walls, did bailouts (practiced repelling basically off the wall, but the purpose was to practice going out the window if you were ever trapped on an upper story in a fire) and we started a burn barrel on fire to fill the place with smoke and did right-hand searches and orientation drills. Later on we will start some of the interior on fire and put it out and then ultimately when we've trained all we can with the inside, we'll start the whole thing on fire and put it out. I'm totally stoked!

Here's the house we're burning

Breaching the walls

Firefighters Malzer and LevinFirefighters Ashby and Brimhall

This is my Leutinent, Lt. Hales

Firefighter J. Robison. (He has just broke the toilet and was scolded because of the smell. Ha ha)

Doing bailouts :)

Most of C shift

Back row, left to right: Capt. Jolley, Lt. Hales, Malzer, Carpenter, Larsen, Levin, Lee, J.Robison

Front row, left to right: Ashby, Brimhall, Gustman

There's like 4 or 5 missing

I seriously LOVE C shift. We have good times together

Stay tuned for pictures of this house on fire, soon to come!!