Crafton Fire Academy alumni get first look at new, state-of-the-art Public Safety Center

发布日期: 12月. 13, 2023

When Crafton Hills College’s next Fire Academy launches on Jan. 16, 2024, cadets will have a new tool to work with: a state-of-the-art Public Safety Training Center.

Program alumni received a sneak peek of the facility on 12月. 12, when instructors 和 Interim Fire Academy Chief Ryan Harold led tours 和 spoke about the center’s 无数的好处.

Alumni, said Harold, “…are blown away, 和 I will say as an alumnus myself, we can all remember our humble roots here as fire academy students throughout the years. The overall sentiment [about the new building] has been ‘What an incredible facility to be able to train future firefighters with so many offerings for advanced training.’”

The Yucaipa-based community college broke ground for the training center in Jan. 2023, with funding for the $9.5 million project coming from Measure CC– a $470 million bond approved by local voters in 2018 to provide modern learning facilities for students enrolled at both Crafton 和 its sister college, San Bernardino Valley College. 建设 on the three-story building is now complete, just in time for the new crop of cadets to start their studies.

Features of the center include:

·         Fire-burn props suitable for kitchen 和 bedroom simulation experiences,

·         Space for commercial, industrial, apartment, 和 residential fire response 培训,

·         Additional room for rope rescue 和 ladder drill 和 rappelling operations, 和

·         A live-fire training facility to be completed in April.

Training of future academy cadets will take place inside the new space 和 its current instruction site located adjacent to the center.

The center’s modern features will address an ever-changing career field, 和 College leaders believe it will attract more cadets to Crafton to fill a declining population of fire fighters.

“What I hope [new cadets] get is a new opportunity to simulate the environment that they will actually enter … once they are serving their communities as firefighters,” 哈罗德说. “We’re fully capable of simulating real-life emergencies now in an all-risk environment where we can capture training evolutions in every scenario that they may 面对.”

Crafton hosts two fire academies each school year – one in the Fall semester 和 the other in the Spring. The 18-unit program is composed of both in-class 和 in-field 培训, with cadets training from 6 a.m. 直到下午5点.m. Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays 和 an occasional Wednesday for 18 weeks at a time. Acceptance into the academy is on a first-come, first-served basis.

To join the Crafton Hills College Fire Academy Alumni Association, go to dctdsj.com/fireacademyalumniassociation.