Fire & Emergency Medical Rescue Academy

The March Fire Academy is now full. Applications for the Fall class will open March 1st. 

 

 Gain Skills in Firefighting and Emergency Medical Rescue

Find the Fire and EMS courses application packet and prerequisite documents here!

Find the physical forms here! 

If you want to help people, can keep calm in intense situations, and are ready for a challenge, join the Firefighting/Emergency Medical Rescue Academy.  You can earn both an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT-B) certification, a professional firefighter certification, plus train in the same settings and situations as local firefighters.

 

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The Great Oaks Fire Academy offers 675 hours of EMS, fire, fire pumper, hazardous materials incidents, and technical rescue from our nationally and internationally recognized faculty.

What you will learn: Fireground safety, building construction, confined space rescue, search and rescue, vehicle machinery extrication, basic patient care and treatment; airway management, trauma and medical patient, general pharmacology, soft tissue injuries, horizontal/vertical ventilation, fire suppression class A-D fire, incident management (NIMS), fire pumper operations, salvage and overhaul, rope rescue, forcible entry, fire safety inspection, interpersonal communications, ethics, SCBA (self-contained breathing apparatus), hazardous materials operations and technician.

Learn more about one of the many career options in this field!

For job outlook and wages for Fire & Emergency Medical Rescue Academy visit www.onetonline.org.

Interested in only completing the firefighter classes? Check out our Firefighter I&II Class
Interested in only completing the Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) classes? Check out our EMT -Basic Class

 

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Enrollment Requirements:

• High school diploma or HSE (High School Equivalency)
• Achieve a WorkKeys® assessment level of (4) or higher in Applied Math and Graphic Literacy and a (5) in Workplace Documents.
  • More WorkKeys® information can be found here
• Background check BCI&I and FBI (May take up to 6 weeks for results)
• Medical physical examination (Great Oaks form found here)

Ready to Enroll?

• To register for the WorkKeys test call 513.771.8881.

• For WorkKeys test information, visit the ACT website.
• For free WorkKeys practice tests visit the OhioMeansJobs® website.
• For current class listings click here.

All students must be 18 years old and have a high school diploma or HSE (High School Equivalency). HSE hotline: 513.612.5806

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Great Oaks Career Campuses is accredited by the Commission of the Council on Occupational Education (council.org)  

All students must have a high school diploma or HSE (High School Equivalency) to start the program and be 18 years old by the completion of the program. HSE hotline: 513.612.5806