r/Firefighting • u/rek1aimer • Mar 07 '25

News NFA cancels all in-person classes

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Just received this email for my resident class at the NFA scheduled to start Sunday.

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u/TheUnpopularOpine Mar 07 '25

What’s the National Fire Academy? Been a firefighter for going on a decade and never heard of it…

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u/NoSwimmers45 Mar 07 '25

As the current Superintendent Eriks Gabliks likes to say, “It’s the best kept secret in the American fire service.” An opportunity to learn from some of the best while networking with like-minded leaders from around the country.

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u/Level9TraumaCenter Mar 08 '25

Used to be St. Joseph's College, which closed in '73. I was filled with nostalgia at how it was so similar to Snotty Liberal Arts School #605 that I attended years prior, when I was invited to speak at the NFA in 2005.

I remember the vehicle search being very professional, what with how the property abutted the facility that tended to the backup for Marine 1. I don't know if that's still the case. Cell phones with cameras weren't a thing yet, and it was said they got very uptight about images being taken.

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u/L_DUB_U Mar 08 '25

Provides some of the best training from some of the most knowledgeable instructors in the nation. The National Fire Academy is in Emmitsburg MD and you stay on campus to attend classes. They have a bar on site and the small town of Maryland benefits greatly from the constant roll of people attending classes every week.

If you get the opportunity you should definetly go sometime. You fill out and application, get accepted, and the class is free and your airfare is reimbursed on successfully completing the course. They also have the CFO program which is a 4 year program that requires attendance twice a year which students have to complete research papers for.

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '25

That's not the brag you think it is. Kinda embarrassing for you.

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u/Chicco224 Mar 08 '25

I don't think he's bragging about it? He's just asking a question. Only reason I know it exists is I have FB friends who have gone to a few classes.

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u/TheUnpopularOpine Mar 08 '25

Why would that be embarrassing? I live in a completely different part of the country.