Alaska high school fire science class trains teens for careers as firefighters

Anchorage Daily News

WASILLA, Alaska — A half-dozen teenagers noisily crawled on their hands and knees through a dark, empty building. Large steel tools clanged off the walls and floors, alarm bells beeped and blared continuously, and mask-muffled hollers resonated from every corner of the building.

These teens weren’t getting into trouble, but rather learning how they would get someone out of it. The chaotic sights and sounds of the training tower were part of a carefully orchestrated exercise helping students enrolled in Wasilla High School’s fire science class learn search and rescue techniques…

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