URBANA, Ill. (WCIA) — Urbana firefighters battled the heat to participate in extra training drills Friday afternoon.

The training, conducted in a parking garage on the University of Illinois campus, focused on house fires and how to use equipment the right way. For instance, on Thursday, bricks fell at the Florida Avenue Residence Hall in Urbana. That’s where two construction workers were injured and the Urbana Fire Department participated in that rescue.

Urbana Deputy Fire Chief Steve Doggett said as of Friday, the victims are still in the hospital, but their injuries are not life threatening. Friday’s training was scheduled 3 months prior to Thursday’s wall collapse.

“So, at this point, we’re trying to refine essentially our body mechanics of how we move a hose into a building while flowing water,” said Fire Lieutenant Josh Fitzsimmons.

Crews focused on fire suppression lessons from an out of state Chief. They worked on how to move a hose into a building while keeping the water pressure flowing.

“You have to understand where to put the water in order to effectively put out a fire and also understand flow pass and how putting water on an exhaust rather than an intake when you have that flow path, how that’s going to change the environment,” said Devin List, Probationary Firefighter. “And so just learning that kind of thing, it’s nothing I really thought about because it’s safe to assume that water is just going to put out the fire, and that’s not always going to be the case.”

Fitzsimmons said anything can occur at any time of the day when on the job.

“Always training for the worst possible scenario,” he said. “We’re always expecting the worst possible scenario and we’re hoping that it’s not that. However, we’re always mentally prepared and trained to the level that we need to meet for the public that we serve.”

List said these lessons apply to any fire training scenario. This includes commercial business settings, dumpster fires, apartment complexes and more.

“You know, we all think that we’re very capable of doing our job and we are,” List said. “But, you know, to take a step back and really think about what we’re doing.”

Deputy Chief Doggett said the goal is to always be ready for all scenarios. They plan to schedule another training within the next month.

“We always come back with another tidbit to make us more efficient, to make us more aware of what decisions we should be making based off of the situations we’re presented with,” Fitzsimmons said.