* WHO :* WVU President David C. Hardesty Jr., other WVU administrators, members of the Morgantown Fire Department, WVU Fire Service Extension instructors

* WHAT :* Reporters are invited to join President Hardesty and his cabinet as they tour the new two-story, 53-foot-long Mobile Fire Training Unit of the West Virginia University Fire Service Extension. Following the tour (10 a.m.), media can watch the Morgantown Fire Department complete atraining evolutionthrough the unit. The firefighters will be challenged by smoke, flames, sights, sounds and obstacles of commercial and residential structural fires. The sessions will be led by WVU Fire Service Extension instructors. The safe system is controlled from an observation room by a lead instructor who can shut down the operations and ventilate the units interior within 45-60 seconds. Environmentally sound, the Mobile Fire Training Unit is fueled by clean-burning propane. It generates benign smoke that does not disturb the community.

* WHEN :* 9:30 a.m., Thursday, May 31

* WHERE :* WVU Parking Lot 25 (off Prospect Street behind Stewart Hall)

* NOTES :* Reporters should park in Area 9 (Mountainlair parking garage lower level). Please display media parking permit. More information about the unit and the WVU Fire Service Extension will be available at the training. Fire Service Extension is a program of the WVU Extension Service. Additional information is also available on the Web athttp://www.wvu.edu/Extension/