David Ashburn is a member of the Walker County Development Authority.
Firefighters in Walker County, Ga., now train by extinguishing wooden pallets set afire inside shipping containers.
But the old shipping containers soon will be replaced by a prefabricated, two-story fire training tower with a “burn room.”
Walker Sole Commissioner Bebe Heiskell on Thursday approved spending $154,000 to buy a tower made by Kansas City, Kan.-based WHP Training Towers. She chose that over a $182,000 model made in Wisconsin.
“The cheaper one meets our needs, so we’re going with it,” County Coordinator David Ashburn said.
County employees will clear a spot and install a concrete pad so the tower can be installed this summer at the county’s emergency services headquarters in Kensington, west of LaFayette.