Forensic fire exercise at Centennial Middle School

The Spokane Valley Fire Department presents a forensic fire exercise at Centennial Middle School to teach the students about fire safety.

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Mon., June 6, 2022

Spokane firefighter and fire investigator Rick Freier, center, talks with "investigators" Millie Hutchins, left, and Axel Cannon, 13, right, about identifying foot prints in a class of middleschoolers at Centennial Middle School Wednesday, June 1, 2022 in Spokane Valley, Washington. Freier has developed and taught a class for middleschool students that combines fire science, fire safety and fire investigation.

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Spokane firefighter and fire investigator Rick Freier holds up the remains of an aluminum frying pan that was destroyed in a house fire as he lectures about fire dangers found around the house with a class of students at Centennial Middle School Wednesday in Spokane Valley.

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Spokane firefighter and fire investigator Rick Freier, right, enlists Wynter Carter, far left, to use her phone to measure how long a candle burns after he places a glass jar over a burning candlein a class of middleschoolers at Centennial Middle School Wednesday, June 1, 2022 in Spokane Valley, Washington. Freier has developed and taught a class for middleschool students that combines fire science, fire safety and fire investigation.

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Spokane Valley firefighter and fire investigator Rick Freier, right, demonstrates how fire acts with a candle and a lighter in a class of middleschoolers at Centennial Middle School Wednesday, June 1, 2022 in Spokane Valley, Washington. Freier has developed and taught a class for middleschool students that combines fire science, fire safety and fire investigation.

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