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Thanks to Post 546's excellent training and
dedicated service to their community's volunteer
fire department, lower fire insurance rates
have resulted for the entire town.
variety of fun activities.
Meanwhile, post members have
carried out such community service
projects as painting the Brookings
Senior Citizens Center and helping to
landscape the grounds about the
Chamber of Commerce building.
They haven't been without fun
things to do, either . Some of their
favorite strictiy-for-fun activities in-
clude roller skating parties, picnics,
dances, Christmas caroling, Softball
games, ana other sports.
Some of the post's most exciting
and valuable experiences during its
less than three years of operation
have been the "training burns" held
Exploring 24
Ladders are a primary
piece of firefighting
equipment. Learning
how to quickly erect and
safely climb them is part
of every Explorer's train-
ing. After the fire is out
(above) Post 546
members accompany
other firemen inside to
search for the blaze's
origin.
once or twice annually in the area.
These "burns" entail the deliberate,
supervised destruction of an old
building to allow firefighters to ex-
perience actual fire conditions in a
carefully controlled environment.
The biggest "burn" in which Post
546 has participated occurred in June
1979, when a deteriorated school
gymnasium was set ablaze in a com-
bined training exercise of the Oregon
and California State Fire Training
Departments. It was the first training
exercise of such magnitude involving
both states.
Post 546 was in charge of all food
preparation for firemen attending the
exercise, which took place over two
weekends. The members also helped
to set several small fires in the build-
ing as an exercise for arson personnel,
attended classes in search and rescue
and in methods of ventilating fires.
Finally, the old gym was set afire
and allowed to burn to the ground
while firefighters observed the blaze
and protected nearby buildings from
damage. Afterward, Post 546 stayed
at the scene after most other fire-
fighters had left to clean and dry
equipment.
For its role in the "burn," the post
received a certificate from the
California state fire marshal, plus a
letter of congratulations on a "job
well done" from the supervisor of the
California Fire Service Education and
Training Department.
Best of all, as far as the people of
Brookings, Ore., are concerned, is the
fact that the additional personnel
provided for the local volunteer fire
department by Post 546 has resulted
in lower fire insurance rates for the
entire town.
And that means everyone saves
money! H
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