Volunteer firefighters get Structure Fire Training

On Saturday afternoon, 15 Malta City and Phillips County Volunteer Firefighters spent their morning in a classroom in the Malta Fire Hall before taking what they learned outside and applied it a mobile burn unit pulled by a semi.

"We are teaching them how to effectively manage a structure fire," said Brandon Brunelle of the Montana Fire Services Training School. Brunelle, a firefighter from Glasgow, spent about two hours with the Malta City and Phillips County Volunteers before the crew headed outside where a fire was started inside of the giant red structure fitted to a semi-trailer.

"We...