Rookies will graduate next week from the Colorado Springs Fire Training Academy -- the last in the near future.
“We decided that we had to look at all the different options. We did across the board. To not have an academy next year really equates to that 1.1 million," Fire Chief Randy Royal told KKTV.
"We don’t expect any kind of response time changes to what we have now. And we’re gonna maintain that at all of our stations, and also with our auxiliary units as well,” Royal said, adding that during the 2008 recession training was called off four years.
“That is tough because that really took us about 10 years to get caught up from that. We definitely don’t wanna be in that same situation."
Susan Nicol is the news editor for Firehouse.com. She is a life member and active with the Brunswick Volunteer Ambulance & Rescue Company, Oxford Fire Company and Brunswick Vol. Fire Co. Susie has been an EMT in Maryland since 1976. Susie is vice-president of the Frederick County Fire/Rescue Museum. She is on the executive committee of Frederick County Volunteer Fire and Rescue Association. She also is part of the Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services Systems (MIEMSS) Region II EMS Council. Susie is a board member of the American Trauma Society, Maryland Division. Prior to joining the Firehouse team, she was a staff writer for The Frederick News-Post, covering fire, law enforcement, court and legislative issues.
