Around 150 area firefighters are probably more up to date on the most effective ways of fighting fires. The firefighters gathered at Ottawa Memorial Auditorium to listen to an all-day presentation from fire experts. Dennis Legear is a former firefighter with the Oakland California Fire Department…….he says some believe that trying to suppress a fire from the outside is ineffective. Legear says a large fire study by the Underwriters Laboratories showed the opposite:
Legear serves as a Fire Consultant to fire departments all over the Nation.
