OLDS — Twelve Olds firefighters got in a day of training by extinguishing a deliberately-set fire in an abandoned house at the Olds Regional Exhibition grounds last weekend.
No one was hurt during the event, deputy fire chief Jason Kjorsvik said in an email.
The event began at 9 a.m. on July 9 when firefighters prepped the house. The fire was ignited at about 11:30 a.m. and extinguished at about 3:30 p.m., at which time the crew left the area, turning it back over to Olds Regional Exhibition.
Kjorsvik says the last time a structure was donated to the department in order to practise extinguishing that type of fire was during the winter of 2020.
“This was a structure west of town that the fire department used for training for a few months before it was burned down,” he wrote.
Some residents reported a fire on the west end of Olds on Sunday.
Kjorsvik said that fire, which occurred west of town, was actually another controlled burn to a structure, undertaken by the Didsbury Fire Department.
