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Fire department minimum standards training programs

The department I work for has a four year minimum standards program. It was once a apprenticeship program, but we do not offer it any more. We send our canidates to the Arkansas Fire Academy for seven weeks and after that we go over it all again for four more years. The question is, could there be a better way to train our people?

I would like to know how your professional development works.

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Permalink Reply by Shawn Tibbitts on May 16, 2009 at 8:46am

We either send our guys to the 7 week program at our state fire academy or we hold our own if we have enough guys. The one we do ourselves is more beneficial because we can focus more on the areas we do rather than waste time on things we have never done or ways out dated. Pros and cons on bolth methods at our school we dont have to reeducate the guys when they come back on our ways of doing it, at the academy it is run more structured and a little more "boot camp" which has ts benefits. after the 7 week program the guys are on a 1 year probation period, and stay close to their assigned LT. or a senior guy until everyone is confident in their firefighting. Thats about it. Im sure I may have left out some key points but I think you probably get the general point of how we do it.
Hope this helped take care and stay safe

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Permalink Reply by Jason R. Ward on May 16, 2009 at 6:06pm

Thank you Shawn. It sounds as though your job is like mine.

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