Fire & Emergency Medical Rescue Academy

Fill out the Program Application Here!  

 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

Information session dates for the Fall Evening Academy:
May 31, 2023 at 6:00pm


*All information sessions are held in room 102 in the Public Safety Services building

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Night Class:
Deadline for the enrollment process: June 9, 2023
Mandatory Orientation: June 17, 2023

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Regular Fall Class:
Program is FULL
Mandatory Orientation: July 15, 2023

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Apply now! 

Enrollment Requirements:

• Watch these informational videos 
  • Why Great Oaks? (Video)
  • How to Enroll (video)
• Go over the enrollment process  
  • 5 Steps of Enrollment
• Attend an information session (online or in-person)
  • Watch the online information session here
  • Sign up for the in-person information session here
• Fill out an online application on the student portal
  • The application can be found here. 
• Read through the Fire Academy Packet and Prerequisite Forms
  • Fire Academy Admissions Packet and Prerequisite Forms
• Start the financial aid process
  • Review your financial aid options
  • FAFSA made simple 
  • Student loan and grant info here
• Meet the required benchmarks for the WorkKeys® Test
  • More WorkKeys® information can be found here
• Have a physical done by a physician
  • Physical form can be found here 
• Complete a BCI/FBI background check
• Finish financial aid and sign all required papers
• Schedule an interview with the Fire Academy staff
  • (Everything in the admissions packet must be completed prior to scheduling an interview)
• Attend a mandatory orientation

All students must be 18 years old by the completion of the program 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)