RESCUE WRECKIN' CREW FIREFIGHTERS USE CONDEMNED HOTEL TO TRAIN.Byline: Daily News LANCASTER - Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County firefighters are practicing their skills on a low-income hotel that is slated for demolition. Firefighters climbed ladders to the second floor, chopped holes in the roof and dragged hoses up stairs See Upstairs in the Vocabulary. See also: Stair at the Dunes Motor Hotel, which the city of Lancaster The City of Lancaster (2002 population: 133,914) is a local government district with city status in Lancashire, England. Its main town is Lancaster, from which it obtained its city status. Other towns in the district include Morecambe, Heysham, Slyne, and Carnforth. bought in March for $600,000 as a downtown redevelopment effort. ``It's not very often we get a real building to practice our techniques on,'' said Fire Capt. Joel Harrison. City officials are letting firefighters practice on the hotel before it is torn down, expected to occur in two or three weeks. Fire officials say they have regular training facilities, but they jump at the chance to use a real building. ``It just adds a lot more realism,'' said Fire Capt. Larry Tucker, who organized the training sessions. The hotel won't be set on fire during the training, but a portable smoke machine is being used. About 60 firefighters from stations around the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley are taking part in the training, which started Monday. City officials said they bought the 43-room, 11,630-square-foot hotel on Jackman Street because it was in poor shape and seemed to be a blight blight, general term for any sudden and severe plant disease or for the agent that causes it. The term is now applied chiefly to diseases caused by bacteria (e.g., bean blights and fire blight of fruit trees), viruses (e.g., soybean bud blight), fungi (e.g. and a magnet for crime downtown. CAPTION(S): 3 photos Photo: (1 -- color) Firefighter Sean Merritt of Los Angeles County Fire Station 130 climbs down a truck ladder during training at the abandoned Dunes Motor Hotel in Lancaster, which is to be demolished de·mol·ish tr.v. de·mol·ished, de·mol·ish·ing, de·mol·ish·es 1. To tear down completely; raze. 2. To do away with completely; put an end to. 3. soon. (2 -- color) The coming demise of the Dunes Motor Hotel provides a chance for firefighters to practice making holes in the roof for future rescues. (3 -- color) A firefighter checks a hole in the roof at the Dunes Motor Hotel, where rescue crews have been getting practice creating new entries. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer |
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