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(Renee Schiavone/Patch)
WALPOLE, MA A Walpole firefighter graduated from the Massachusetts Firefighting Academy s fifty-day Career Recruit Firefighting Training Program at the Springfield campus.
Walpole was one of nine departments represented in this semester s graduating class. This semester s class had 17 people in it.
The program teaches recruits public fire education, hazardous material incident mitigation, flammable liquids, stress management, confined space rescue techniques, and rappelling. The intensive, ten-week program for municipal firefighters involves classroom instruction, physical fitness training, firefighter skills training, and live firefighting practice. Students receive classroom training in all basic firefighter skills.
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They practice first under non-fire conditions and then during controlled fire conditions. To graduate, students must demonstrate proficiency in life safety, search and rescue, ladder operations, water supply, pump operatio