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Portland Fire & Rescue’s Recruit Academy is a nationally recognized program. The Recruit Academy includes comprehensive classroom instruction and high-level training in the latest firefighting techniques and equipment use.
The Training Academy is 20 weeks long and prepares recruits for their move to Station 2, our training station and a working firehouse.
Some facets of the Training Academy curriculum include:
- Becoming proficient and comfortable working in personal protective equipment, learning proper radio etiquette
- Hose handling techniques
- Ladder selection and placement, appropriate to environment and available personnel
- Apparatus and pump operation & how to efficiently secure a water supply
- Forcible entry and vehicle extrication techniques
- Understanding building construction and how to read smoke
- Search techniques
- Ventilation practices
- Hazardous materials operations
- Wildland firefighting
- EMS skills and scenarios
- And, of course, live fire training