Structure Fire Simulation – Recruit Class Graduation

Structure Fire Demonstration…Firefighter Recruit Graduation

St. Tammany Fire Protection District #1 will be conducting a “Live Fire” demonstration which will simulate a Structure Fire and the fire department response. This simulation will include Search and Rescue Operations, Ventilation Operations and Extinguishment Operations. Fire department training officers will follow responders into the departments fire tower with thermal imaging cameras connected to remote monitors allowing spectators to view the efforts of firefighting personnel in the smoke filled building.

The demonstration will be open to the public and the media and is scheduled for 6:30 pm, Wednesday June 8, 2011 at the Fire District #1 Training Academy located on Camp Villere at 34780 S. Range Rd.

The firefighters participating in the demonstration will include Fire District #1’s latest recruit class. This simulation is among the last training exercises the nine member recruit class will face as their sixteen week training class comes to an end.

On Friday, June 10, 2011 at 6:00pm the nine member recruit class will graduate at a Ceremony conducted at Northshore Church on Kensington Blvd. in Slidell. The graduation ceremony will be open to the public and the media.

For more information about St. Tammany Fire Protection District #1 visit us at www.SlidellFire.org or follow us on Facebook and Twitter.
Captain Van Joffrion
PIO / Fire Prevention Officer
vjoffrion@SlidellFire.org
Cell (985) 201-5566

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