Area firefighters had a unique opportunity to practice techniques on three downtown Rochelle properties late Thursday.
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ROCHELLE — Area firefighters had a unique opportunity to practice techniques on three downtown Rochelle properties late Thursday.
About 30 crews from the Rochelle Fire Department along with the Ogle-Lee Fire Protection District consisting of Hillcrest, Flagg Center, Creston and Steward stations conducted training sessions in the 400 block of North Sixth Street. The three properties are slated for demolition sometime next month to make way for the new storage facility for Kennay Farms Distilling.
Tyler Carls, Training Officer for Rochelle and District Officer for the OLFPD, said the training consisted of three scenarios.