Chattanooga Fire Academy 2013 completed its week of live fire training April 5 at a donated house on Shallowford Road. Earlier that week, instructors showed the recruits how to search for victims with no visibility, either because their masks were obscured or because the house was full of smoke. Later in the week, individual rooms were set ablaze, and the recruits gained valuable experience putting out real fires. The morning of the live fire training, after cutting extra holes in the house and loading it up with straw and old pallets, the house was lit and allowed to burn to the ground. If everyone in the current class makes it through the academy, 22 recruits will graduate on June 27.