The King County Wastewater Treatment Division is collaborating with Snohomish County Fire District 7 in November to provide training opportunities for firefighters at the Brightwater treatment plant site.
Fire District 7 serves Mill Creek and unincorporated areas of south Snohomish County.
Before beginning plant construction next year, King County will demolish some buildings on the site along State Route 9 in Snohomish County. The Brightwater site is within the fire district, so King County offered use of some buildings for firefighter training before demolition.
Firefighters will use the buildings for various training drills for two or three weeks. None of the drills will involve use of fire.
The fire district will conduct the drills at various times during daylight hours to meet the schedules of volunteer firefighters. Because the site is visible from SR-9, temporary signs along the highway will tell motorists that the activities are only drills.
The training may include incident management, thermal imaging, investigations, aerial ladder placement, forcible entry, ventilation, confined-space rescue, rapid intervention and get-out-alive exercises.
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