A Texas fire department gave city leaders a tour of its new training center Saturday.
The Denton Fire Department's state-of-the-art facility cost more than $2 million to build and is expected to be help train more than 500 firefighters from 25 departments, KTVT-TV reports. A six-story building features sensors that stop and restart fires based on room temperatures, and a separate chamber simulates flashover conditions.
"We haven’t had anything like this in the history of the Denton Fire Department," Fire Chief Kenneth Hedges told KTVT.
Officials already are thinking of adding building collapse and rubble rescue simulators, according to the TV station.
