Traing Pictures

The Fire Academy is the educational foundation for our firefighters. In the academy recruits will learn what they need to know about suppressing and preventing fires, staying alive, responding safely to hazardous materials incidents and performing basic rescue and medical care and service.

The academy however, does not teach everything a firefighter would need to know. Other things the firefigthers will need to know that are commonly referred to as disciplines, are either conducted in-house or through private and state training agencies.

Some of these disciplines were touched on, which include the following:

• Rope Rescue
• Water Rescue (Swiftwater and Ice)
• Confined Space Rescue
• Structural Collapse Rescue
• Trench/Excavation Rescue
• Hazardous Materials

All of our members are trained at the awareness or operations level to these disciplines. Some advance to the technician level and can function effectively in two or three of these disciplines. Those at the technician level make up our technical rescue team.

The technical rescue team is nothing fancy. It is merely a group of our firefighters who are trained at the technician level of a discipline, along with their normal firefighter duties. If a rope rescue is needed, then our rope rescue technicians would respond. Training in these disciplines are intense and fun. Monthly, members are required to conduct a series of drills, and are required to keep themselves abreast to new changes and any updates.

Below are training pictures from some of the disciplines.