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Greensboro Fire Department recruit Treonna Salters joined 21 excited colleagues at an intense live fire training exercise. She is a member of the 76th recruit class of the nationally acclaimed fire department. At the abandoned two-story structure, Salters and fellow recruits participated in various phases of observing how fires begin, spread and are extinguished. Live […]

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