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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City firefighters spent the morning at the Wheeler Downtown Airport practicing how to battle a fire after a plane crash.
And what was their training tool? A specialized airplane owned by the University of Missouri-Columbia which they set on fire over and over again. The plane also travels the country so firefighters from other states can practice this specialized kind of firefighting.
