TEMPLE, Texas (KWTX) - With several fatal accidents happening on Central Texas interstates this year, training for that scenario is crucial.

That is exactly what first responders in Temple are doing this week.

“Going over vehicle extrication,” Cpt. Justin Rhea, Training Captain, Temple Fire and Rescue. “These are some of the higher risk, low frequency events that we don’t always get to train on in a controlled setting.”

Firefighters are putting their tools and skills to work with the use of donated vehicles and training dummies.

“They get to use the, more commonly called jaws of life, but we call them spreaders or cutters,” said Cpt. Rhea. “That’s what we use to literally tear open cars to get that patient out of there.”

This is a joint training exercise with EMS to make sure both tea

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