The Hinesville Fire Department will soon have some new faces.
The department launched a new 8-week, in-house training program. For years, recruits would train at the Georgia Public Safety Training Center in the town of Forsyth, just northwest of Macon.
“Today we’re putting a lot of building blocks together”
The lessons inside the classroom.
“We’re getting a lot of knowledge between the textbook, and obviously we’re coming out here today.”
Now being applied outside.
“We’re doing a lot of hands-on type of stuff, which is where a lot of people learn the best,” fire recruit Thomas Lazaras said.
Hinesville fire recruits, joined by several fire instructors, got to practice putting a mock house fire out at Bryan County EMS’s burn building.