THE BLUE MOUNTAINS, ONT. — Five new state-of-the-art training facilities will be built to train thousands of firefighters for in-demand careers, thanks to funding from the Ontario government.
Ontario is investing over $9 million to build five new training centres through the capital stream of the province’s Skills Development Fund. The new centres will have the capacity to train more than 28,000 firefighters over a five-year period.
In partnership with the Ontario Professional Fire Fighters Association, the province is also investing about $970,000 in a training project that will provide fire ground survival training to firefighters across the Niagara, Toronto and Kingston regions. The Town of Georgina will also receive provincial support to train and upskill its volunteer firefighters, a release indicates.
The funding will be allocated as follows:
- Town of Georgina: $550,436 to support the construction of a new fire and rescue training facility.
- Town of Orangeville: $3,667,650 to support the construction of a new fire services campus to replace the existing building to train members.
- Town of Newmarket: $865,046 to support the construction of a new fire training facility in Aurora.
- Municipality of Clarington: $3,216,384 to support the construction of a new fire training complex to help meet the community’s emergency response needs and provide effective training for future leaders in the fire department.
- Town of Hanover: $780,331 to support the construction of a new fire hall to support local training of the Hanover Fire and Rescue.
- Ontario Professional Fire Fighters Association Fire Ground Survival Train-the-Trainer Program: $970,150 to deliver fire ground survival training to career firefighters across the regions of Niagara, Toronto and Kingston.
- Town of Georgina – Community Safety Skills Development for Georgina Fire and Rescue Services: $439,373 to deliver training to its volunteer firefighters.
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