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Mr. Phil Irwin of the Rappahannock League for Environmental Protection stated he had seen a similar tower at Blue Plains where Washington, D.C., firefighters train. The training tower he is speaking of is on the Maryland side of Washington, D.C. He asked for the location of the nearest facility where Rappahannock firefighters could receive this type of training. To be specific in answering there is no such training tower now located within the fivecounty Planning District. The nearest are in Fairfax, the city of Winchester, the city of Fredericksburg and the city of Harrisonburg.
Mr. Irwin questioned whether training in rescue from two and three story buildings is “really a necessary ingredient for fire fighting experience.” As a Virginia Certified Fire Training Instructor and from my own personal experience in combatting fires for 17 years, training in search and rescue ladder
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