A few years back we did the same thing with a commercial property we had in southern NH. The local town did not require a donation from us. We did sign a form that we were donating the building them for training. The donation form also allowed us to write off the value of the structure as a donation to the town. They trained for about a week performing small fires and rescues. At the end of the week they cleaned up and burned the building and garage down on Saturday. The whole process was neat and clean and very inexpensive .
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