There will be a house fire Tuesday evening in Steinbach's east end. Fire Chief Kel Toews says weather permitting, the fire department will burn down a derelict house just east of the Gospel Fellowship Church along Highway #52 East.

"As part of our training exercises, the fire department is burning a house along #52 East. We'll first be doing some training there as far as ventilation and cutting holes and then after that, we will be lighting it up."

Toews says they will be on site around 6:30 p.m. to do some training exercises and will then light the building on fire around 7:00 or 7:30. He adds live training exercises like this very valuable.

"You can train as much as you want in the classroom or at the fire hall and pretend, but nothing replaces an actual fire and cutting walls and roofs. Simulation is great but the real thing is better."