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Published December 30, 2010, 12:00 AM

Firefighter training photo gallery

Photos by Dan Saletel for the Pine Journal


Firefighter instructors Kevin Schroeder, (from left) Ken Klatt and Steve Kolodge discuss how the live-fire training exercise is going.

  • Firefighter instructors Kevin Schroeder, (from left) Ken Klatt and Steve Kolodge discuss how the live-fire training exercise is going.
  • Thor Trone gets ready to fight the fire. Trone came to the Cloquet Area Fire District as a paid-on-call firefighter with station 3 in Scanlon.
  • Travis Gustafson from Station 3 in Scanlon examines his mask to make sure everything is in order.
  • Firefighters will crawl into a fire one after another, because the air temperature is cooler near the floor and the visibility is better (although still limited).
  • The big stick is called a pike pole, and it is used for pulling down ceilings so firefighters can get at fire that's gone into the attic, moving things around with the big hook on the end. A pike pole can penetrate sheet rock.
  • Instructors Ken Klatt and Kevin Schroeder
  • Division chief of paid-on-call firefighters Steve Olson, of station two, Perch Lake, gets some ice crystals in his moustache during the training exercise. The outside temperature was close to zero degrees Fahrenheit that night.
  • Battalion Chief Steve Kolodge