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2016 Annual Report • Fire Department • St. Anthony Village, Minnesota <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />19 | Page <br /> <br />ROOKIE TRAINING PROGRAM <br />By Lieutenant Joe Basara <br />We take pride in training our own firefighters as much as possible in house at the fire <br />station. This process can be very strenuous not only on the candidates but as well as <br />the other firefighters doing the teaching. As you may know being a firefighter takes a <br />lot of time and never ending training because of everything we are expected to know <br />and do in extremely stressful situations. Being able to train in house as we call it can be <br />very beneficial as all of our members get to train with other members of our department and are <br />able to train with equipment that we work with every day. <br />In 2016 three firefighter candidates successfully completed our training program. This was a <br />very long and busy year to still be able to successfully train these three firefighters to our <br />standards was a great achievement. <br />You may ask what is all entailed in training our fire department candidates. First they must go <br />through the hiring process of filling out an application, background checks, interviews, health <br />physical, psychological assessment and a written exam. Also, they need to live within a certain <br />time limit from the station. This is all due in part to response time. This can take some time and <br />we try our best to get the best possible candidates that will work well within our department <br />and department culture. <br />Meeting with candidates to work out a training schedule for firefighter I and II, most of the past <br />few classes of rookies have done at least two days a week of training on top of all other <br />department training that is required. The firefighter I and II training that is required is a total of <br />over 180 hours of training. <br />Candidates get sent out to get their Emergency Medical Technicians (EMT’s) training done; this <br />course is normally done a few nights a week as well with a total of over 160 hours of training. <br />In between the firefighter training and the EMT training we also require all of our members to <br />be Fire Equipment Operators (FEO’s). This training varies in time as some individuals catch on <br />faster than others. But each person learns over time how to drive each of the fire trucks, how to <br />pump on each of the fire trucks and all of the equipment locations on each of our fire trucks. <br />Everyone must learn and know all of our dash panels on each vehicle along with all of the <br />pump panels. Driving usually can be the toughest for some because of the size of some of our