Chapel Hill firefighter hurt in training exercise
Capt. Darryl Rimmer was working off-duty as an instructor for a Durham Technical Community College course when he fell into a hole on one of the floors of the town's fire-training tower.
Posted — UpdatedFire Chief Dan Jones said Capt. Darryl Rimmer was checking smoke conditions on a floor above a group of students when he fell into a smoke scuttle hole about 1 p.m.
On-duty Chapel Hill firefighters and Orange County EMS medics got him down from the tower, where several area departments train, in a stretcher basket and took him to UNC Hospitals.
Rimmer's injuries were less serious than first thought, Jones said, but he was being held overnight Friday for observation.
The training tower, a brick and concrete building next to the town's Fire Station No. 4 on Weaver Dairy Road Extension, is designed to give firefighters realistic experience working in fire conditions.
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