Franklin June 2016

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Three Franklin Graduates of MA Firefighting Academy
Chief Gary B. McCarraher
is pleased to announce that
three Franklin firefighters recently
graduated from the Massachusetts
Firefighting Academy.
Nicholas Garland, age 34, of
Franklin, Christian Mills, age 30,
of Taunton and Keith Schnabel,
age 40, of Wrentham were
three out of 24 graduates from
the 243th class of the Massachusetts
Firefighting Academy’s 45-
day Career Recruit Firefighting
Training Program. A ceremony
was held at the Department of
Fire Services in Stow.
All three firefighters have
been with the Franklin Fire Department
since March 7. They
completed a two-week orientation
at the department before
their class began at the academy
on March 21.
“Firefighter Garland, Firefighter
Mills and Firefighter
Schnabel have all worked very
hard since they started with our
department earlier this year,”
Chief McCarraher said. “We
are all very proud of their accomplishment
of graduating
from the academy and look forward
to having them as a part of
our team.”
The intensive nine-week
state firefighting academy for
municipal firefighters involves
classroom instruction, physical
fitness training, skills training
and live firefighting practice.
Firefighters learned the basic
skills they need to respond to
fires, including how to contain
and control them, public fire
education, hazardous material
incident mitigation, flammable
liquids, stress management, confined
space rescue techniques
and rappelling.
To graduate, firefighters were
required to demonstrate proficiency
in life safety, search and
rescue, ladder operations, water
supply, pump operation and fire
attack (ranging from mailbox
fires to multiple-floor or multiroom
structural fires).
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Left to right: Franklin firefighters Nicholas Garland, Christian
Mills and Keith Schnabel all graduated from the Massachusetts
Firefighting Academy this afternoon. (Photo Courtesy of the
Franklin Fire Department)
“This rigorous professional
training provides our newest
firefighters with the basic skills
to perform their jobs effectively
and safely,” State Fire Marshal
Peter J. Ostroskey said in a
statement.
The remaining 21 graduates,
19 men and two women, represent
the 19 fire departments of
Amesbury, Bedford, Cambridge,
Clinton, Concord, Dighton,
Leominster, Littleton, Lowell,
Marlborough, Middleborough,
Nantucket, North Andover,
Norton, Norwood, Somerville,
Wayland, West Bridgewater and
Woburn.
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