
A fireman crawls through a restricting tube during confined space training. The pipe’s width required the fireman to remove his pack supply and push the bottle in front of him to exit the tube. Since the city council allowed the local fire department to aid in “rescue” type operation in and out of Bethany, the firemen had started to scale up their training.
Bethany, Mo: After a decision to remove rescue operations from a list of services the local ambulance district provides (with the exception of vehicular extraction), the volunteer firefighters of Bethany chose to step in and fill the void left behind.(To read more purchase a Republican-Clipper newspaper)