Local fire departments turning to students, others for help
By Meg Thilmony
Sunday August 17, 2008
Darrell Hoemann
Edge-Scott Edge-Scott Fire Department District Lt. Jason Griest, right, and firefighter Grant Yatzkan remove tools from Engine 41 during training Monday at the University of Illinois' Fire Service Institute.
Ben Lantow, Grant Yatzkan and Graham Haworth are clearly some of the hardest-working firefighters on Edge-Scott Fire Protection District's department.
The three don't hesitate to pull on their sooty yellow uniforms and take their turn inside a building so hot that steam hisses off the water used to fight the fire. They came to improve, learn the ropes and try putting themselves in an officer's position. They show up most Monday nights – last Monday, to a fire in a cinder-block building at the University of Illinois' Fire Service Institute.
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