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Graduates of the Massachusetts Firefighting Academy Call/Volunteer Recruit Firefighter Training Class 91. (Courtesy photograph.)
Firefighters from Groveland, West Newbury and Merrimac were among 40 graduates of the Massachusetts Firefighting Academy Call/Volunteer Recruit Firefighter Training Class 91.
Groveland firefighters Christen Grugnale, Matthew Guy and Robert Hoffman, West Newbury’s Andrea Ball and Merrimac’s William Howard were awarded certificates of completion on Tuesday, June 29, at the Department of Fire Services Stow campus.
State Fire Marshal Peter J. Ostroskey and Deputy State Fire Marshal Maribel Fournier said 11 of the 40 are women, representing more than a quarter of the graduates and are the largest number in any Recruit Training Class since the Academy was created in 1971.
Haverhill firefighters James Bizeur and Matthew Monigle graduated Friday from the Massachusetts Firefighting Academy’s 50-day Career Recruit Firefighting Training Program. State Fire Marshal Peter J. Ostroskey and Deputy State Fire Marshal Maribel Fournier said 19 firefighters from 12 fire departments completed the program at the Stow campus. “This rigorous professional training provides our newest firefighters […]