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Job Applicants Attempt to Ace Firefighting Test in Champaign, Illinois

Monica Hall leans over. "I'm nervous, I'm really nervous," she whispers. It is less than two hours before she will take her written test for the Champaign Fire Department

News • June 19th, 2003

Purposeful Burning ... BLM Crews Use Fire To Reduce Hazard, Get Hands-On Training In Idaho

Bureau of Land Management firefighters are purposely burning thousands of acres in south-central Idaho this week

News • June 18th, 2003

Mock Rescue Is Dead Serious; Firefighter's Death Prompts Training In Arizona

Three firefighters crawled through the thick fog of smoke, searching for one of their own

News • June 18th, 2003

Trailer Set Ablaze To Train Firefighters Recruits Get Taste Of Work Ahead

The smoke was thick as flames poured from the windows and roof of a mobile home on Doctors Lake

News • June 17th, 2003

Stratford, Connecticut Firefighters Train On Sea-Doos

A man drifted helplessly in the Housatonic River

News • June 11th, 2003

Charlotte, North Carolina Firefighters Train Under Tough Conditions

A new group of Charlotte firefighters are training to handle adverse situations.

News • June 6th, 2003

Public Officials Experience Life Of Homeland Security Foot Soldiers As “Firefighters for a Day”

Officials from Florida and across the country will get a hands-on feel on what it is like to be a fire fighter and paramedic at a day-long interactive training session hosted by IAFF at the Broward County Fire Academy.

News • June 4th, 2003

Mississippi Fire Chief Outlines Vision For Training Facility

It's only a vision now, but Starkville Fire Chief William Grantham is hoping that his dream of building a fire training facility locally will become a reality

News • May 20th, 2003

Behind The Scenes Of Disaster Training

A commuter jet smashes into a taxiing Boeing 737 full of people. The small plane explodes, sending a fireball and then a cloud of black smoke into the sky.

News • May 15th, 2003

Pennsylvania Firefighters To Recieve New Training Tower

Pleasant Hills council voted unanimously to approve the borough fire department's plan to build a four-story fire-training tower in Mowry Park.

News • May 7th, 2003

National Fire Academy Announces First Semester 2004 Enrollment Period

The United States Fire Administration's (USFA) announces today, the National Fire Academy (NFA) is now accepting applications for its first semester 2004 residential program, which begins October 1, 2003.

News • May 1st, 2003

Responding To A WMD/Terrorism Incident

If you have reviewed the terrorist and Weapons of Mass Destruction incidents that have occurred in our nation, you would have picked up on many lessons that resonate and are shared by these incidents.

News • April 25th, 2003

New Mexico Bomb Squad School

A large basalt mountain just off Interstate 25 marks a frontier in America's war against terrorism.

News • March 7th, 2003

AL FFs Train For Structure Collapse

Rescuers tunneling their way through walls and debris ran into a metal obstruction that appeared to be a large appliance.

News • January 31st, 2003

Feds Investigate SF Airport FF Training

Six current and former firefighters at the airport are coming forward to say crews are not being trained properly.

News • January 30th, 2003

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