Kid campers learning fire fighting and first responder skills
By Melanie Wingo
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ROSEVILLE, California (KCRA) — The next generation of firefighters is building up emergency response skills during a week-long camp experience.
Nearly 90 middle school age kids are spending Monday through Friday of this week at the Roseville Fire Training Center learning all about what it takes to be members of the fire service.
Each camp day begins with endurance, strength and agility training exercises through which campers feel the physical demands first responders face on the job.
“We’ve been doing it for almost 30 years,” said camp director James Kornweibel. “We’re almost 50/50 boys and girls and we’re exposing them to the fire service and they can do everything we do, including climb the ladders and go into our burn rooms.
Each kid has a skill they enjoy building the best.
“Oh, my favorite part is probably rappelling,” said 12-year-old camper Juniper Hall. “Rappelling is pretty fun.”
The fire service mentors are making it about as close as the kids will get to a mini fire academy experience, organizers said.
“They have team work, camaraderie, they get to work on strengths and push themselves every day,” said Kornweibel.
Thursday’s camp day will take the kids to Folsom Lake where they’ll learn emergency response on the water.
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