Several North Shore high school students left the comfort of the classroom for a wet and wild locale recently during the annual Firefighter Career Day held at the District of North Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services training centre.
DNV Fire Captain Gunter Kramer was joined by several other district firefighters as well as North Vancouver City Fire Department members in leading the students through an intense day of training at the department’s training facility on St. Denis Avenue.
The students spent the morning learning about the ins and outs of a firefighter’s daily life, as well as the requirements needed to get into the profession.
The afternoon was spent tackling tough tasks in the training centre, including lowering out of the hose tower, crawling through a smoke-filled building, searching through a burning building and surveying the North Shore horizon for signs of smoke from the top of a 45-metre tower.
