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NORTH VANCOUVER District Fire Department assistant chief
Gary Calder uses a scale model of a town to learn advanced
firefighting strategies during a recent two-week course in fize of-
ficer executive development at the Justice institute of B.C.’s fire

academy in Yar-couver.

N. Van fireman
eraduates from sr.
officer’s course

NORTH VANCOUVER
District Fire Department
assistant chief Gary Calder
recently graduated from an
intensive two-week course
for senior fire officers in
municipal fire departments.

The program, held at the
Justice Institute of B.C., covered
a wide range of duties and sub-
jects.

“Fire departments are multi-
dimensional environments that
demand a wide variety of skills,”
said Paul Smith, director of the
Justice Institute’s fire academy.

He added thai the course is
designed to give a good overall
view for senior fire officers in
such areas as priority manage-
ment, media relations, apparatus
specifications, community fire

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liability

protection alternatives,
service

risk management, fire
safety and leadership.

“The course is intensive and
gives fire officials a thorough un-
derstanding of both operational
and administrative aspects of chief
officer duties,’ said Smith.

The Fire Officer Executive De-
velopment program, held from
March 2 io 13, was attended by 10
fire officials from North: Van-
couver District, Coquitlam,
Richmond, Fort Nelson, Kitimat
and Quesnel.

The Justice Institute of B.C.

a provincial training centre tor
justice and public safety agencies
as well as professionals in social
work and education.

The fire academy’ provides
training programs for B.C.’s more
than 13,000 full-time, volunteer
and industrial firefighters.

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