Fiery classroom goes up in smoke
Sixteen new firefighter recruits from Kennewick, Pasco and Richland fire departments as well as their instructors take part Thursday in a hands-on wildland firefighting class.
The class was held in a vacant field near the Benton County Emergency Management building on Truman Avenue in Richland.
The students first used hand tools to dig a line in the dirt around the perimeter before lighting it on fire as the culmination of classroom studies.
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This story was originally published May 30, 2019 at 4:36 PM.