Firefighters with the Los Alamos Fire Department (LAFD) are utilizing the old Chamisa Elementary School in White Rock this week as a training platform to sharpen their skills. Los Alamos Public Schools Superintendent Jennifer Guy is providing LAFD with a unique opportunity to train firefighters in this empty, decades-old school, which will eventually be demolished. In this exercise, firefighters train in a smoke-filled classroom to locate and rescue victims. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com

In this exercise, a firefighter locates a fellow firefighter who has collapsed and begins pulling him through classrooms and away from danger. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com

At this point, the only way out of the burning school building is through a wall, so the firefighter gets busy creating a large hole to pull the collapsed firefighter through and outside to awaiting paramedics. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com

The firefighter knocks down enough of the wall to pull his unconscious fellow firefighter through and outside the school building to receive medical attention. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com

Another scene of firefighters training in the lobby of the old Chamisa Elementary School today on Meadow Lane in White Rock. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com

LAFD vehicles are parked in front of the old Chamisa Elementary School as training gets underway in White Rock. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com