TEMPLE, Texas — On Sept. 28, the Moffat Volunteer Fire Department conducted its first live-burn training, giving volunteers hands-on experience fighting controlled fires.
Training officer Lt. Chad Hartman said live-burn exercises are vital as the department serves a district with a rapidly growing population, KXXV reported.
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“This is our first time hosting a Firefighter I class in the department and being able to do all the skills checkoffs, skills evaluations and our own live fire here as a department,” Hartman said. “And so for the future we can bring people in with no certifications, no training and train them all the way up to a certified firefighter.”
The live-burn exercise took place at the future site of Station 2 near Temple, a significant milestone that ends the department’s reliance on other facilities for certification training.
“In the past, we had to rent the facility or pay to go train at Temple’s training facility or do outside training, send people off to the state fire academy to get these certifications,” Hartman said.
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