Grant funded training

[STAT213 332]

Has anyone in New York heard about the grant funded training that is going on up here yet?

Apparently all of the money left over from all of the AF grants is available somewhere and someone here in New Hampshire figured out how to access it. We now have in the range of 4 MILLION dollars that has to be spent by this fall.

Take a look at what is being offered for classes:

http://www.nh.gov/safety/divisions/fstems/training/schedtrdates.html

All of the ones listed for grant funding are being offered as overtime for career firefighters and call guys get paid a stipend. In addition, they pay for your coverage and the class itself. It's like training Christmas. People are lined up at the academy hours in advance like its a line for Bon Jovi tickets.

If we have access to 4 million here, I can only imagine what New York state has available. Our association of professional firefighters led the charge for this, I hope someone in NY is doing the same.

Edited May 8, 2012 by STAT213

[JM15 386]

Wow there are some awesome classes and so many!!

[SageVigiles 1,194]

I only wish CT was fortunate enough to have something like this.