Red River Army Depot has partnered with the Texas A&M Forest Service and the Bowie County Firefighters Association to host a Wildland Fire Training Academy, April 29 through May 5, 2019. This is the second training academy held at RRAD.
This year's the academy will include five courses including: S-130/190 Basic Wildland Firefighter; S-212 Wildland Fire Chainsaws; L-280 Followership to Leadership; S-215 Fire Operations in the Wildland/Urban Interface and S-131 Wildland Firefighter I. The Basic Wildland Firefighter course will be offered twice, once during weekdays and the other on weeknights and the following weekend. The evening/weekend classes are being offered to help accommodate volunteer firefighters that may not have the opportunity to attend a day class during the week.
Registration is open to all federal and state agencies, fire departments and prescribed burn managers.
Those wanting to register may visit the Texas Interagency Wildland Fire Academy website at https://tiwa.tamu.edu/RegSysStudent/Home/Home.aspx. Grant funding training tuition assistance is available to qualified Texas departments through the Texas A&M Forest Service under the
Rural Volunteer Fire Department Assistance Program (HB 2604) and TIFMAS. To apply, please visit http://texasforestservice.tamu.edu/FireDepartmentPrograms or call (979) 458-6505 for HB2604 or (936) 639-8100 for TIFMAS. Applications for training tuition assistance must be submitted to the Emergency Services Grants Division before the academy start date.
For questions, please contact the Texas A&M Forest Service Regional Fire Coordinator, Nathan Carroll at 936-546-1918 or ncarroll@tfs.tamu.edu.
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