By Alicia P.Q. Wittmeyer
The Virginian-Pilot
© May 3, 2010

It was a final exam beyond anything the instructors could have dreamed up.

Firefighters from Virginia Beach and Chesapeake were in Memphis, Tenn., on Saturday, teaching their last lesson in a five-week course for Memphis-area firefighters on technical rescues – rescues from tricky spaces or tight situations.

They were wrapping up their final week – focused on swift-water rescues, as it turns out – when the call came: A group of firefighters was trapped. Their engine, caught in the heavy flooding that swept through Tennessee that day, had rolled into a ditch and the local fire departments had run out of people to handle calls. Could they – and their class – possibly lend a hand?

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