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Volunteer firefighter training
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Volunteer firefighters learn how to load a hose onto a firetruck at the Ohio Fire Academy. (Abigail Bottar / Ideastream Public Media)
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Ohio Fire Academy Assistant Chief Dave Belcher gives a tour of one of the practice houses at the State Fire Marshal’s Office in Reynoldsburg last fall. Volunteer firefighters learn to ventilate buildings and force entry in this practice house during their 36 hours of training. (Abigail Bottar / Ideastream Public Media)
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Volunteer firefighters spend some of their 36 hours of training at this house, where they practice ventilating a building and forcing entry. Twenty one firefighters completed their certification in August. (Abigail Bottar / Ideastream Public Media)
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This bay, typically filled with semitrucks and trailers that deliver specialized training to departments across the state, sits mostly empty one day in August. (Abigail Bottar / Ideastream Public Media)
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