Future firefighters complete final exercises towards certification
Firefighter I Training at the Chester County Public Safety Training Campus.
Nineteen students completing the latest Chester County Firefighter I Training Course conducted final firefighting exercises at the Chester County Public Safety Training Campus. The exercises covered search and rescue, indoor firefighting, fire attack types, auto fires, dumpster fires, and stages of fires. All exercises represent...
County offering citizens free emergency training
Course is designed to make residents better prepared to handle catastrophes
During the last CERT course, the Chester County Public Training Center was a hub of activity as emergency services workers went about their routines as instructors helped trainees respond to a simulated rescue of a person trapped by a collapsed building.
The county is inviting citizens to receive free training that will help...
‘On the road’ meeting leads to South Coatesville
County commissioners to convene at Public Safety Training Campus
The county commissioners will hold their June 5 public meeting at 7 p.m. at the Chester County Public Safety Training Campus in South Coatesville.
When the Chester County Commissioners hit the road for their third 2013 meeting outside West Chester, the location will offer attendees a look at a relatively new county facility.
On Wednesday,...
Training center inaugurated by veteran firefighter
Lonnie Brown thrilled to teach first class at campus in South Coatesville
By Kathleen Brady Shea, Managing Editor, The Times
Instructor Lonnie Brown says the county’s new training center is a dramatic improvement over the makeshift classrooms he’s used in the past.
Plans for a Chester County Public Safety Training Campus languished for half a century before coming to fruition on Sunday...
For first responders, a center worthy of their efforts
Long-awaited Chester County Public Safety Training Campus opens first phase
By Kathleen Brady Shea, Managing Editor, The Times
County Commissioners Ryan Costello (from left in from row), Terence Farrell, and Kathi Cozzone cut the ribbon for the Chester County Public Safety Training Campus’s education facility.
Whether trying to extricate accident victims from burning wreckage or evaluating...
