Kansas City firefighting crews are training this week in and on Midtown buildings that could soon be demolished.
Crews could be seen Thursday morning conducting training exercises in vacant residential buildings, including on the roof of one structure and in the windows of another, in the Valentine neighborhood just east of Southwest Trafficway.
Kansas City Life Insurance, which is headquartered in Valentine, owns the buildings and has targeted them for demolition ahead of possible future redevelopment. The company says the buildings are unsafe, and the city has added them to its list of dangerous buildings with orders to demolish or repair them…