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Woodbury Firefighters Mark Midsummer with a Community Event and a Serious Drill

'Watering the Kids' Traditional End Town Summer Camp

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Woodbury Firefighter Haden Ware asks two girls whether they enjoyed the spray from the Engine 8 Water Turret Gun in the traditional end on Friday July 25th to Woodbury Summer Daycamp. (Woodbury Fire)
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Woodbury Firefighter Amy Clark, a Navy veteran and director of the town's Emergency Management Program, uses heavy power tools to separate a jammed vehicle frame in an extrication rescue drill on Saturday July 26th. (Woodbury Fire)
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Counselors join campers in running through spray from the Woodbury Fire Dept's Engine 8 in the traditional end to the town's summer day camp Friday July 25th. (Woodbury Fire)
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Woodbury Firefighters and summer campers line up at the end of 'Watering the Kids,' the traditional end to summer day camp Friday July 25th with spray from the department's Engine 8 water turret gun. (Woodbury Fire)
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Woodbury Firefighters demolish a donated wreck Saturday July 26th in an exercise with power tools used to rescue trapped victims of car crashes. (Woodbury Fire)

WOODBURY – Woodbury Firefighters marked the midsummer break at the end of July with a community effort Friday called ‘watering the kids’ to close summer daycamp and then extensively drilled new members Saturday with tools used to extricate victims from car crashes. In a photo from Friday July 25th, Firefighter Haden Ware, an IT designer, asks two girls if they enjoyed dashing under the spray from 2,000 gallons of water carried on Engine 8. In the drill picture from Saturday July 26th, Amy Clark, Woodbury’s director of emergency management, uses power tools to separate a car frame in a rescue extrication drill. Nearly half a dozen new members of the department became familiar with the powerful equipment by demolishing a donated vehicle. “Training with this gear is critically important,” Deputy Chief Dave Lampart told them, “because car crashes were the largest single component of the 461 callouts last year.” ###

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