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SPOKANE VALLEY FIRE HIRES 14 NEW FIREFIGHTERS
For Immediate Release:
August 29, 2019
Contact:
Julie Happy
Community Affairs Manager
Spokane Valley Fire
509.892.4155
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SPOKANE VALLEY FIRE HIRES 14 NEW FIREFIGHTERS
TRAINING BEGINS TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3
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Spokane Valley Fire has hired 14 new Firefighters. The 14 recruits will begin their training Tuesday, September 3 at the Fire Training Center located at 2411 N. Pioneer Lane. The Fire Academy will run for 15 weeks with the recruits participating in additional training throughout their first year. Two recruits will receive an additional 200 hours of training to attain their National Registry EMT certification.
Selection of the 14 recruits was a long process that started with a pool of over 600 applicants. Of those applicants, 217 met the written test and physical fitness standards. The top 72 were then interviewed by a Fire Department panel to choose the 14 which were hired.
“We are very excited at the Spokane Valley Fire Department to have these 14 individuals join our team,” said SVFD Chief Bryan Collins. “We look forward to watching them learn and grow over the next exciting 12 months. They have made it through a difficult hiring process and we are honored to be a part of the beginning of their journey as a firefighter in our community.”
This is a long and intensive academy that is starting a little later in the year then typical. Fifteen hundred pages of material will be covered during the 15 weeks as well as hands-on training on equipment and procedures. With the later start, crews will encounter a tougher training environment with the upcoming fall and winter months.
Training will include:
- Ladder confidence and familiarity
- Hose handling
- Health and fitness education
- Wildland fire fighting
- Forcible entry
- EMS
- Fire behavior
- Search and victim removal
- Fire and Life Safety
- Hazardous materials training
- Vehicle extrication
- And more
All recruits will have to pass exams throughout the training on skills learned. After graduation, crews will be rotated through different station assignments and will be on probation for 1 year.
About SVFD
Spokane Valley Fire Department serves the cities of Spokane Valley, Liberty Lake, Millwood and the surrounding unincorporated areas of Spokane County with a combined population of 125,000 across 75 square miles. SVFD firefighter crews which include paramedics and EMT’s, responded to more than 17,487 emergency calls in 2018.
Established in 1940, SVFD is an Accredited Agency by the Commission on Fire Accreditation International; and, classified as an ISO Class 2 department by the Washington Survey and Ratings Bureau (WSRB). SVFD is one of four accredited departments in the state and the only department with distinction as an ISO class 2.
For more information about Spokane Valley Fire Department, visit www.spokanevalleyfire.com.
Follow us @spokanevalleyfire on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube.
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Did you Know?
- You can sign up for a station tour. Great for small groups.
- You should replace the batteries in your smoke alarms twice a year.
- Creating a defensible space with regards to wildfires could just save your home or property.
- We have Friends & Family CPR classes every month.
