Training Announcements

FIRE ACADEMY

• Montgomery County Fire Academy
  • The 2008 Spring schedule for the Montgomery County Fire Academy is posted.
  • You can also go to the web site.
• Pennsylvania State Fire Academy

  • The 2008 resident course catalog for the PA State Fire Academy is available online, and a copy is saved on the network at the stations.

• Bucks County Public Safety Training Center

  • The 2008 course catalog for the Bucks County Emergency Services Training Center is available online, and a copy is saved on the network at the stations.

NATIONAL FIRE ACADEMY

Registration for 07-08 second semester begins in November

Registration for the second semester of the 2007-2008 National Fire Academy courses will open in November.  Registrations for the first semester (October 1, 2007 - March 31, 2008) were closed at the end of June.  The second semester runs from April 1, 2008 - September 30, 2008.  The application period for the second semester will be between November 1, 2007 - December 31, 2007.  Click here to access registration forms.  For a list of the second semester courses, click here.

 

Responding to Terrorist Incidents in Your Community:

Flammable Liquid Fire Fighting Techniques for Municipal and Rural Firefighters

• Four day (32 hour) course.

• Various weekends are available, but dates are filling up.

• Held at the University of Nevada's Reno Fire Science Academy in Carlin, NV

• Training cost is FREE, pending approval of a scholarship grant.

This special 32 hour course will include training for response to terrorist behavior, sabotage, and damage to "soft targets," including truck and rail terminals, pipeline transfer stations and other industrial facilities in municipal and rural communities.  Instructors are experts chosen for their depth of knowledge, teaching skills, and real-life experience in their fields. 

Tuition, PPE use, travel, lodging, and meals are FREE.  You must apply for a scholarship.  For more information or an application for the scholarship grant, please go to the Reno Fire Science Academy web site.

There are requirements for this program.  The 32 hours for the course do NOT include the travel time.  We have had two members (James Staufenberg and George Myers) that have attended this course, so feel free to ask about the program.   If you would like to attend, please see the Chief.