Junior Firefighters

Local children got put through their paces as they trained to be junior firefighters at the San Marcos Fire Department’s Junior Fire Academy Camp at Station 5. Engineer Richard Howser helps junior firefighter Bryleigh Trotter lift a coil of hose as they prepare to roll it out at the hose station. Daily Record photos by Denise Cathey

Firefighter Stephen Warne helps brace a hose from the brush truck as junior firefighter Ana Daniels takes aim and tries to hit Engineer Richard Howser.

After a long morning of running through different stations Case Adams and R.J. Mizanin take a break in the shade of the fire station.

Firefighter Stephen Warne turns on the brush truck’s water sprayers to wet down the junior firefighters after they practiced aiming the vehicle’s water hoses.