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Friday, November 20, 2009

Fire safety training at Seven Hills goes hands-on



Kelley Craig of the Nevada County Consolidated Fire Department teaches a Seven Hills School seventh-grader how to use a fire extinguisher Friday morning.
Kelley Craig of the Nevada County Consolidated Fire Department teaches a Seven Hills School seventh-grader how to use a fire extinguisher Friday morning.ENLARGE
Kelley Craig of the Nevada County Consolidated Fire Department teaches a Seven Hills School seventh-grader how to use a fire extinguisher Friday morning.
Michelle Rindels / The Union
For the lab safety unit of his seventh-grade life science classes, teacher Ken Arbaugh decided to spice things up.

He invited firefighters from the Nevada City fire station to start small fires in a trough on the side of Seven Hills School Friday morning.

“I'd never used [a fire extinguisher] before, but now I know how to put fires out,” said Conner Upton, 12.

For more on the story, read Saturday's edition of The Union.


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