A group of coal miners knew exactly how to beat the cold temperatures Wednesday: 30 million BTU of fire fighter training at Rend Lake College.
Nine members of the fire brigade from Century Mine in Beallsville, Ohio, were busy putting RLC’s state-of-the-art training facility to the test in Ina.
The day started with problem scenarios in the 10,000-square-feet mock underground mine at the Coal Mine Training Center. The team then moved out to the mine rescue and safety training facility where it practiced putting out different degrees of fire, in clear and smoky conditions, on the program’s advanced fire training props and inside the fire tunnel. full story
