Crime & Safety

East Pierce Fire and Rescue Conducts Training Burn at Home on Pioneer Way

Today's smoke clouds were just a drill, as East Pierce Fire and Rescue conducted a training burn at a house on Pioneer Way E.

If you saw smoke clouds billowing around Sumner today, fear not -- it was just a drill.

East Pierce Fire and Rescue conducted a safety burn today at a home on the 14500 block of Pioneer Way E., just outside the city limits of Sumner.

Training burns help the department practice -- it's not every day the firefighters get to prepare for dramatic fire rescues outside of an emergency.

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Check out more photos from today's drill on the East Pierce Firefighters IAFF Local 3520 Facebook page.


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