With so many fire engines rolling through the neighborhood you’d think residents would be alarmed. Instead, some were sitting on their front lawn as if they were watching a sporting event.
The annual Eric Hall Memorial Interagency Fire Drill is an event, a training event, and it involved upwards of 250 personnel from Siskiyou County fire agencies this past weekend in and around Lake Shastina.
Fire companies rotated through five training stations both Saturday and Sunday, following a schedule that was referred to in the proper parlance as an “action plan.”
The “incident objective,” in this case, was “to prepare all fire service organizations in Siskiyou County to respond with competence, confidence and cooperation to a major wildland/interface fire. Fire service organizations participate to improve the service they provide to their communities.”
CAL FIRE fire prevention specialist and information/education officer Suzanne Brady said the drill, which is named after the late Eric Hall, a Lake Shastina Fire Chief who stressed the importance of training, was not held the previous three years because of high levels of fire activity. This year’s fire season, Brady said, has been “fairly normal.”
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With so many fire engines rolling through the neighborhood you’d think residents would be alarmed. Instead, some were sitting on their front lawn as if they were watching a sporting event.
The annual Eric Hall Memorial Interagency Fire Drill is an event, a training event, and it involved upwards of 250 personnel from Siskiyou County fire agencies this past weekend in and around Lake Shastina.
Fire companies rotated through five training stations both Saturday and Sunday, following a schedule that was referred to in the proper parlance as an “action plan.”
The “incident objective,” in this case, was “to prepare all fire service organizations in Siskiyou County to respond with competence, confidence and cooperation to a major wildland/interface fire. Fire service organizations participate to improve the service they provide to their communities.”
CAL FIRE fire prevention specialist and information/education officer Suzanne Brady said the drill, which is named after the late Eric Hall, a Lake Shastina Fire Chief who stressed the importance of training, was not held the previous three years because of high levels of fire activity. This year’s fire season, Brady said, has been “fairly normal.”
