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Iowa ANG fire fighters hone fire and rescue skills

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  • By Vincent De Groot
  • 185th Air Refueling Wing

Sioux City, Iowa -- Fire fighters from the Iowa Air National Guard’s 185th Air Refueling Wing fire department trained on multiple fire and rescue techniques during their June training weekend. 

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VIDEO | 02:39 | Iowa ANG fire fighter training
The exercise had fire fighters training in a multi-story fire training tower on a variety of structural fire scenarios at a Sioux City airport.

During the several-day training period, fighter fighters used tools to practice roof entry; victim rescues as well as extinguishing fires.

Firefighters also had the opportunity to practice entry into a pair of salvage vehicles that were brought on base for the training exercise.