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Firefighter training at NIPSTA

May 27

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This from Drew Smith:

Friday, May 23, NIPSTA Firefighter Academy Class 1402 traveled to the Skokie FD to use their training tower for live fires. It is week six of the nine-week academy and all basic skills have been completed and practiced in live fires. This week’s live fires were response evolutions where assignments were made using radio dispatch to the company officer (instructor). The 28 candidates working in companies with NIPSTA E2 and T1 performed a variety of skills including leadouts, laddering, forcible entry, and searches. This class graduates on June 13.

Drew Smith

Director, NIPSTA Firefighter Academy

Deputy Chief, Prospect Heights Fire Protection District

NIPSTA candidate class training in Skokie. Drew Smith photo

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Firefighter II training

Feb 23

Posted by bgshap in Fire Service News, Training | 2 Comments

A Firefighter II Class currently running at the Northern Illinois Public Safety Training Academy (NIPSTA) was learning about automobile fires on Wednesday. They had half a dozen cars to destroy in the yard and they went about it in style. Always up for a fire … and with nothing genuine to attract a photographer in the area … Tim Olk and Larry Shapiro stopped by to take some photos.