Instructor Derek Stein works with students in the Rivers of Steel workforce training program at the Carrie Furnace building in Rankin. (Louis B. Ruediger | TribLive)
Klauss Garibaldi sat in the Carrie Blast Furnace building in Rankin, intently molding wax into a dragon. He used fire to bend the material and eventually laid his creation into resin-bound sand.
For Garibaldi, it will help him chase his dreams of becoming an electrician…