Students get chance to be firefighters for a day
There were smiles — and wide eyes of excitement — as 11 female students from the Vernon School District got to try their hand at being a firefighter for a day.
It was part of the third annual event put on by the City of Vernon and Vernon Fire Rescue Services where the grade 10 students got to use fire equipment and go through some firefighting drills under under supervision of firefighters.
During the day-long event, the students learned about specific elements of the job, such as first medical response, HAZMAT, auto extrication, confined space, over-the-bank rope rescue, structural firefighting, urban interface forest firefighting, public education, fire inspection, and fire investigation.