This new interactive class combines an educational lecture with a hands-on experience. The classroom portion will discuss tower ladder operational tactics at various types of structures, forcible ...

OROVILLE — Climbing off the ladder of Truck 74, Cal Fire-Butte County firefighters cut open a mock roof on a new, four-story training tower, to ventilate fake smoke in a demonstration Tuesday at the ...

Patton Fire Company life member Ken Letso (left) receives a tour of the new training tower by committee member Frank Hribar as state Rep. Dallas Kephart (right), R-Cambria, checks out the view from ...