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Work has started on a new training centre which will help firefighters learn new skills and techniques developed following the Grenfell fire tragedy. Bosses say Ashford’s fire station is to be transformed into the UK’s “most modern and innovative” firefighter training sites which will simulate realistic scenarios. The project comes in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire in London with bosses hoping the new facility will give crews valuable experience. Work on the project, which is seeing the existing 17m live fire training building demolished and replaced with an 18m high-rise and a detached t…

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