Nineteen volunteers completed Basic Fire Academy Training at the Lower Bucks Public Safety Training Center in Croydon this summer and earning national certifications to better serve their communities.
Friends, family, and fellow first responders attended the August 13 graduation ceremony for the most recent firefighter graduates at Bucks County Community College’s Epstein Campus at Lower Bucks.
Credit: Eric Parker, Bucks County Community College
A total of 19 volunteer firefighters completed Basic Fire Academy Training at the Lower Bucks Public Safety Training Center in Croydon and earned national certifications, enabling them to help fill the critical shortage of first responders. Training included a structural burn session, fighting a controlled blaze that replicated a real-life emergency.
Volunteer firefighters prepare a ladder to fight a controlled structural burn at the Lower Bucks Public Safety Training Center in Croydon this summer. Credit: Eric Parker, Bucks County Community College
Volunteer firefighters train a firehose on a blaze in a controlled structural burn at the Lower Bucks Public Safety Training Center in Croydon this summer. Credit: Eric Parker, Bucks County Community College
Volunteer firefighters participate in a controlled structural burn at the Lower Bucks Public Safety Training Center in Croydon this summer. Credit: Eric Parker, Bucks County Community College
Steve Coyle of Yardley, a volunteer firefighter with the Yardley-Makefield Fire Department, earned the Outstanding Student award for his leadership among 19 first responders who graduated August 13 from Bucks County Community College’s Basic Fire Academy Training. He was congratulated after the ceremony at the Epstein Campus at Lower Bucks by Patrick M. Jones, Ph.D., the College’s President and CEO, and Ronni Fuchs, Esq., chair of the College’s Board of Trustees.
Credit : Eric Parker, Bucks County Community College
The College is the largest provider of fire and emergency services training and certification in Pennsylvania, training approximately 45,000 first responders annually in all 67 counties in the Commonwealth.