Champaign fire lieutenant gives students hands-on training
By Christine Des Garennes
Sunday November 30, 2008
Darrell Hoemann/The News-Gazette
Champaign fire Lt. Dorval Norwood, left, works with Jazzie Groce and Blake Allen of the Fire Explorers to clean a vehicle at the Champaign main station.
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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