Smoke, trucks and firefighters from all over San Luis Obispo County are descending upon a donated house over the next two weeks for live fire training in San Luis Obispo.

“What live fire means is that we're able to set up scenarios in a controlled environment. We can set actual class-A combustible fires," San Luis Obispo City Fire Chief Todd Tuggle explained.

Back in March, the first live fire training of the year was in Arroyo Grande. Now, training is taking place in a structure in a residential area near downtown San Luis Obispo and Cal Poly, making it the 8th structure donated to CAL FIRE SLO since 2017.

“One year we may have several, another year may have none," CAL FIRE SLO Public Information Officer Ryan Grebe said. "So we really appreciate the opportunity where we can find new st

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