June 22, 2020 10:45 a.m. 

The City of Roseburg Fire Department, in conjunction with the Douglas Forest Protective Association and Douglas County Fire District No. 2 will be actively engaging in wildland fire training exercises on Reservoir Hill in Roseburg, starting on Monday.

Staff Assistant Amy Rice said during the training exercises, two specific portions of the hill will be used for training. Live burning will take place twice a day. Those exercises are on City owned property. Rice said training will begin at 9:00 a.m. and end at 4:00 p.m. each day.

Rice said training objectives will include refresher fire training on wildland firefighting tactics, continued training on command and control procedures for multi-unit response, and eliminating fuels in an effort to minimize the threat of an uncontrolled burn. Rice said the training opportunity provides the ability to not only train together, but to improve the effectiveness of interoperability between multiple agencies.

Training will continue on June 24th and 26th.