Mobile Fire Rescue Training Center

This week, MFRD firefighters took on the challenge of completing the Alabama Fire College’s Fire Apparatus Operator course, held at the MFRDTC.

Fire Appratus Operator is designed for the firefighter who wishes to advance to the next level of his/her career and gain the base knowledge and skills to become a Driver/Operator/Engineer.

The course consists of six modules that include preventative maintenance, tests and inspections, driving/operating, water supply, sprinklers and standpipes, and operations.

The MFRD is excited to welcome Firefighter Recruit Class 23-02!

After a week of orientation and onboarding, the 35 recruits begin their 6-month fire and EMT training journey. This week, twenty-six (26) recruits started Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) school with our partners at the The University of South Alabama, while the remaining receuits continue their MFRD orientation.

We look forward to seeing these 35 new members of the MFRD become competent and confident firefighters.

It’s been a wild ride for FF Recruit Classes 22-03 and 23-01. Their basic fire and EMT training may be ending soon, but there learning and training in fire and EMS will continue. There is never a finish line.

Very special thank you to our colleagues at SouthFlight for an on-site visit and presentation. Our recruits, now, have a better understanding of operations and their roles in crisis situations.

It has been a long road for Recruit Classes 22-01 and 22-02, and though we are in the home stretch and nearing the end, training still continues. Although the light may be at the end of the tunnel for these firefighter recruits, there can never be a finish line for a first responder - always learning, always training, always adapting, always improving.

Class 22-01 and Class 22-02 prepare to graduate on Friday, August 26th and hit the streets as the City of Mobile’s newest Firefighters!