Staff photo by Wendy Burton
Muskogee Fire Department Training Officer Jeff Watkins, left, and Capt. Matt Sheets demonstrate a water rescue by pulling firefighter Ryan Hiner into the department’s rescue boat at Three Forks Harbor. Friday was the third day in as many weeks the department conducted water rescue training, Watkins said. “This is for shallower water, or flooding incidents. It’s something we haven’t done for a while, but with more flooding incidents here lately, we felt like this was something we needed to do. We’ve done three sessions at different times to try and get every firefighter on every shift trained.”