North Lyon Fire and the Lyon County Sheriff’s Office SWAT team held training exercises on
Saturday, Aug. 2, capped off with a live fire of an old building on Mission Way.
The fire district conducted weeklong training exercises focused on different aspects of
firefighting, including vertical ventilation, overhaul operations, wall breaching and live fire.
Vertical ventilation involves cutting holes in the roof of a structure to allow heat and smoke to
escape and make fire conditions and visibility better inside the structure. Overhaul operations
include training on how to find hotspots in the ceiling and walls after the main fire is
extinguished. In the wall-breaching training, the firefighters worked on how to force themselves
through a wall in situations where firefighter survival means needing to leave the room or
structure in case of an emergency.
A building that used to house a church at 1320 Mission Way was donated to the fire district for
the opportunity to train using a real structure. In the live fire drill, new and senior firefighters
worked on learning the stages of fire growth, how to read smoke and the behavior of fire.
In addition to the fire training, members of the Lyon County Sheriff’s Office SWAT team
performed a variety of drills.
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