Champaign fire lieutenant gives students hands-on training

CHAMPAIGN – Earlier this month, on a chilly, windy and dark Thursday evening – during a burst of snow flurries, no less – a group of teenagers tended to a patient stuck on a roof.

It was a mock exercise, really, and the patient was actually a mannequin, and the mannequin wasn't placed on a high-pitched roof but behind Fire Station No. 5. Still, the students worked to "package the patient," strapping the mannequin to a backboard and placing it in a basket of sorts to prevent it from falling out while being taken down a ladder.

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