Charleston firefighter Will McCallister pulls a firehose into the Wheeling Fire Department training tower on Wheeling Island in a lesson on how to best navigate stairs to fight a second-floor fire. Toronto, Ohio, firefighter Lance Winstel, in the gray sweatshirt, leads firefighters from various cities through a class on rescuing a victim whose arm has been impaled on rebar. Wheeling firefighters carry a 400-foot hose in a class taught through GRIT Fire Training on how to transport hoses longer distances between fire and water source. Berkeley County and City of Fairmont firefighters cut through a meat grinder to free a hand stuck in it. OR&W Fire Chief R.C. Fellows, right, goes over instructions on how to extract a victim’s hand from a meat grinder. GRIT Fire Training instructor

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