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George Tuttle wants to save lives and follow in his father’s firefighter footsteps. “Any time I can have a chance to help somebody, I’ll always help them,” he said. “There’s a lot more people that you can help with being a firefighter. It’s not anything to do with crime or
The academy was shut down last year when the pandemic began. Author: Peggy Lee Updated: 9:40 PM EST March 9, 2021
FRACKVILLE, Pa. — At the Schuylkill County Fire Academy near Frackville, fire trainees are back in class getting instruction on what they need to know to fight fires on a Zoom call.
The academy was shut down this time last year when the pandemic hit.
Those running the academy say by switching the classroom instruction to remote learning, they are now able to get back to the training that was halted last March.
"Without doing this by Zoom, this program would not happen,” said Girardville Fire Chief Frank Zangari, who is the Schuylkill County Fire Academy chairman. "They'll be able to do the classroom work in their own fire stations or some of them in their own homes; they don't even have leave home.”