PHOTOS: Hinsdale FD Hosts Live-Burn Training
Firefighters from Hinsdale and those from surrounding towns got together over the weekend to practice their response to a big, multi-company operation.
The Hinsdale Fire Department and four other area departments got together Saturday and Sunday for live-burn training at a vacant building at 421 E. Ogden Ave. in Hinsdale. Hinsdale firefighter/paramedic Steve Tullis said the point of the training was to practice large-scale operations for fires that demand a multi-company response. Tullis is the spokesman for the Hinsdale Fire Department, and he explained the event best in an email to Patch: "Oak Brook, Western Springs, LaGrange and Clarendon Hills were all there to work on multi-company operations, planing for big events such as a large structure fire in Hinsdale. We worked on large-area searches inside a structure, hose-line advancement, truck operations such as cutting hole in the …
