Deputy Chief Greg Nesom, who helped oversee the design aspects of the training facility, said it is a much-needed addition to the city's infrastructure. Currently, when Conroe firefighters need to undergo training, they must travel as far as Houston Fire Department's Val Jahnke Training Facility near Hobby Airport to get training sessions and equipment.
Conroe Fire Department Station 7 and the department's first-ever training facility are set to be open by the end of the year. The two facilities will be located on 20 acres in Conroe Industrial Park off FM 1484.
But with the planned three-story burn building, six-story rescue tower and 2-acre driving pad, firefighters are able to train in their own back yard. The burn building will house Class A burning material, meaning wood and hay instead of Class B burning material like propane.
Nesom said The Woodlands Fire Department's training facility, located in the 16100 block of Interstate 45 North, uses the latter, which burns cleaner. But Class A material, Nesom said, is closer to what firefighters will experience in an actual home or business fire.
The city is paying about $4.3 million for the training facility, according to Conroe Fire Chief Ken Kreger.
On the fire suppression side, Station 7 will house one fire engine that will be staffed with four personnel at one time. The new station will cost about $5.2 million, which includes paying for new fire truck, equipment for the fire truck, and equipment for new firefighters.
To help staff the station, the Conroe Fire Department is hiring 12 new firefighters, each to be hired in threes over the next few months. Three will be hired in January, while the other nine will be hired in March, July and September.
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A Tea family of six is now homeless after a devastating fire Sunday morning.
Fortunately, they still have each other as no one was seriously hurt in the blaze.
However, Tea Volunteer Fire First Assistant Chief Steven Oberle said there was a scary moment after a firefighter fell through the floor of the burning home.
- PUB DATE: 1/18/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KDLT-TV Sioux Falls
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Four children were hospitalized in critical condition Tuesday morning after being rescued from a burning home in the Vermont Knolls neighborhood of South Los Angeles. Firefighters found the front of the home in the 800 block of West Manchester Avenue heavily involved with flames when they arrived about 10:51 p.
- PUB DATE: 1/18/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KTLA-TV WB 5 Los Angeles
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Great Smoky Mountains National Park Superintendent Cassius Cash said a team that will review the forest fires that spread from the park into Gatlinburg and beyond has been activated and “should be here in the next week or two.”
Fed by near-hurricane-force winds, the flames swept through Sevier County on Nov.
- PUB DATE: 1/18/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Knoxville News Sentinel
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