A week-long intensive academy for firefighters and emergency responders will make its way to Summit County in June, offering local firefighters and emergency teams top-of-the-line training close to home and local businesses a fresh influx of customers.
Organizers say the Colorado Wildland Fire & Incident Management Academy, held twice a year in different locations around the state, could yield upwards of $500,000 for Summit County businesses.
“We do bring in a considerable amount of money to the local community,” said Brian Ayers, president of Upper Arkansas Valley Wildfire, the non-profit organization that …

Firefighters from across the Big Country learned how to battle wild fires.
Forty-eight firefighters completed the 9th Annual Brownwood Wildfire Academy. The academy demonstrated basic wildland firefighting. Participants took courses and had hands on training with water shuttles and emergency vehicle operations. Lake Coleman Firefighter, Ken Thibodeaux, said the extra training makes him more confident. “The more you get out there and practice, the more you’re gonna make sound decisions,” he said.
Thibodeaux said the knowledge he learned is invaluable. “There are guys here that have been on over 25 years. Getting …

The U.S. Fire Administration’s (USFA) National Fire Academy (NFA) has completed development of the first two new Emergency Medical Services (EMS) courses in response to the U.S. Fire Administration Reauthorization Act of 2008. An additional six courses are in the process of development or revision. The Reauthorization Act included direction for the National Fire Academy to provide advanced EMS training.
“In recognition of the value that fire-service based EMS provides American communities, the USFA’s NFA is revising and improving the EMS program to meet the needs of EMS agencies,” said NFA …

He hoisted the ladder up a six-story building the way firefighters did it in the old days, hooking it onto each windowsill and climbing, story by story.
Sweating in the icy air, 29-year-old Jonathan Healy could barely feel his fingers.
“It was so cold out, my fingers were freezing; I had to do it as fast as I could,’’ said Healy, a Navy corpsman and a Boston Fire Department recruit from Dorchester.
Healy may never use that outdated pompier ladder on the job. It has been out of service for decades, replaced with …

The city plans to conduct an entry-level firefighter examination this summer.
For the first time in the city’s history, the examination process will require all applicants to obtain a valid Candidate Physical Ability Test certification, dated June 1, 2010 or later, issued by the State of Connecticut Fire Academy.
The deadline for registering for the spring 2011 CPAT program is Feb. 25.
The law firm of Koskoff, Koskoff & Bieder PC will offer scholarships to help with the cost of the $150 CPAT examination fee for Bridgeport residents who have demonstrated a commitment …

Continuing education is just as critical for volunteer firefighters as responding to local calls.
Eight volunteers from the Torrington Volunteer Fire Department participated in training classes this past weekend at the Wyoming State Fire Academy in Riverton. Over the course of Saturday and a half-day on Sunday, volunteers practiced fire tactics, arsenal investigation and advance automobile extraction.
Volunteer firefighter Cody Scott, who has been active with the department for two years, took part in the 12-hour fire tactics course. In this hands-on program taught by a fire chief from Connecticut, Scott and …

Whether you’re undergoing firefighting training or you just want a way to pad your resume, firefighter academies are incredibly useful for helping you be the best firefighter you can be. They provide the perfect combination of book learning and physical training. Here are a few ways that firefighter academies can benefit you.
There are a variety of different professions that can you can consider once you’ve graduated from firefighter academies. For example, those wishing to excel at arson investigation or wildland, industrial, residential, or military firefighting can benefit drastically from …

When Gwinnett County Fire Department spokesman Capt. Tommy Rutledge began the citizen fire academy in 2003, he said he didn’t even think about needing an alumni association.
It’s a good thing he eventually did.
“We didn’t realize the benefit of having an alumni association,” Rutledge said. “But we quickly realized that these folks didn’t just want to come for 12 weeks and leave.”
At the fire department headquarters Tuesday, members of that Gwinnett Citizen Fire Academy Alumni Association were honored for their contributions from the past year.
The GCFAAA’s goal is to assist the …

The teenagers at the LBJ Firefighter Academy go through most of the same drills and training as every other Austin fire cadet.
They clamber up ladders, put out fires and learn lifesaving resuscitation techniques. At the end of the two-year program, the high-schoolers can take a state exam that, if they pass, certifies them as firefighters and emergency medical technicians.
LBJ High School’s program — a partnership between the City of Austin and the Austin school district — is only one of three such collaborations in the country. Officials with the Arlington …

The Vermont Arts Council and the Department of Buildings & General Services invite you to celebrate the permanent installation of sculpture by artist Gregory Miguel Gómez of Newtonville, MA and Putney, VT at the new Training Facility at the Vermont Fire Academy, 672 Academy Road, Pittsford, Vermont. A reception for the artist will be held on Friday, December 17th from 3:30 – 5:00 p.m.
The sculpture, entitled “Tools of Command” was commissioned through the Vermont Art in State Buildings Program. The Vermont Arts Council worked …