| Nate Wilbur, a firefighter from Lexington, Kentucky, waits to step into a live exercise at an abandoned home south of Bowling Green, Ohio on May 9, 2013. Over 350 students from 130 fire departments and industrial brigades received training from 70 instructors at various sites in Northwest Ohio during the biannual BGSU State Fire School. (Photos: Enoch Wu/Sentinel-Tribune) SEE MORE PHOTOS |
| Genoa Township firefighter Michael Mahler is hauled onto a ladder by Maumee firefighter Nick Simon (middle) and Perkins firefighter Matt Sullivan (right) during an exercise on firefighter removal at the former Deck Hanneman funeral home in Bowling Green, Ohio on May 7, 2013. |
| Firefighter Curt Isakson (left), of Escambia County, Florida, fire and rescue, demonstrates how to saw through a floor as firefighters observe his work during a session on force entries on May 7, 2013 at the former Deck Hanneman funeral home in Bowling Green, Ohio. |
| Firefighter Michael Mahler, of the Genoa Township Fire Department near Columbus,Ohio is seen through a crack in the front door of the former Ohio Army National Guard armory in Bowling Green, Ohio during an exercise in carriage bolt removal on May 7, 2013. |
| Firefighter Kevin Crow, of the Parma Fire Department, saws through metal grates protecting the windows of the former Ohio Army National Guard armory in Bowling Green, Ohio during an exercise on May 7, 2013. |
| Firefighters collect gear needed for an exercise during a course on basic and intermediate rope rescue at Doyt Perry Stadium in Bowling Green, Ohio on May 8, 2013. |
| Alex Robinson (right) of the Lubrizol Corporation in Painesville, Ohio, climbs over a ledge at Doyt Perry Stadium in Bowling Green, Ohio, and prepares to repel down the side of the stadium as coworker Bill Varner (left) has a look over the edge during a rope rescue exercise on May 8, 2013. |
| Alex Robinson (right) of the Lubrizol Corporation in Painesville, Ohio, repels down the side of Doyt Perry stadium in Bowling Green, Ohio, during a rope rescue exercise on May 8, 2013. |
| A firefighter hauls hay through smoke during a live exercise on a home south of Bowling Green, Ohio on May 9, 2013. Over 350 students from 130 fire departments and industrial brigades received training from 70 instructors at various sites in Northwest Ohio during the biannual BGSU State Fire School. |
| Bowling Green firefighter Jordan Walther monitors a burn-down of a house during a live exercise south of Bowling Green, Ohio on May 9, 2013. |
| Firefighters tend to a fire during a live exercise on a home south of Bowling Green, Ohio on May 9, 2013. |
