 Northern Eye Center in Pikeville, your local vision experts, experienced doctors using state-of-the-art technology, choose from top designer frames from Oakley, Ray Ban, Nike, and more. We accept Medicaid and Medicare, plus most insurances are accepted. Northern Eye Center in Pikeville, next to tractor supply. On Wednesday, September 6, the Pikeville Fire Department completed their final day of annual trench rescue scenario training. If someone were to suffer an injury in an unsecured trench, the rescue team can quickly evacuate them before any more harm is caused. Public Information Officer Nicholas Fleming tells us more about the training. Any time there's a water line that has to be repaired or any kind of utility line, a trench is dug. So utility companies are constantly digging trenches, placing lines in the ground. Any time anything has to be buried, there's going to be a trench involved, most likely. So that includes digging the trench, working around the trench. They should secure the trench as well if they're going to be working that environment. And I feel like in the city they do a fairly good job at that, very good job at that. Some companies that may want to take shortcuts may not secure their trench very well, so that could lead to problems. And if that happens, then we have to be available to respond to that. The trench training class is extensive considering the resources required for it. Understanding how to deal with unique rescue scenarios is considered beneficial for the department and those in need. We're constantly training for any kind of rescue that we'll be called to because you never know what's going to happen. And we have to be available to respond to that and to serve the citizens as best we can. So of course, we try our absolute best and we're constantly trying to improve on our skills. It's a 40-hour class, so we have a lot of new firemen. So with that being said, some of these guys have never been exposed to a trench rescue or what the details of that entail. So with that being said, we want to make sure to get all of our members through that as a refresher, but especially our new members that haven't actually completed any kind of rescue in the trench environment. Reporting from Out in Top News, I'm Nick Colm.