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Mirror photos by Brian Yermal Jr. / Firefighters used an old house on Beaver Dam Road in Canoe Creek State Park for a controlled structure burn.
Fire crews begin to arrive on the scene of the controlled structure burn.
Firefighters ignite the fire inside the structure.
Smoke beings to billow out of the structure.
Firefighters and firefighting students wait on standby for their turn to enter the structure for training.
Firefighters prepare to cut holes into the rooftop of the structure.
Flames begin to creep outside the structure.
Large amounts of smoke billow from the roof of the structure.
Flames and smoke erupt from openings in the rooftop.
Flames and smoke begin to consume a large portion of the structure.
Flames burned down a portion of the roof where the fire originated.
Flames burned down a portion of the roof where the fire originated.

A group of firefighters and firefighting students spent Sunday morning and afternoon working the scene of a controlled structure burn on Beaver Dam Road in Canoe Creek State Park. Firefighters from numerous departments, as well as State Fire Commission and state park officials, supervised as students took turns entering the burning structure in groups to learn firefighting tactics such as indoor fire suppression, ventilation and search and rescue. The purpose of the burn was to provide training to volunteer fire departments and to demolish the structure because of its unsafe condition, according to a press release from Canoe Creek State Park. To see more photos of the burn, visit altoonamirror.com.

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