{"id":64478,"date":"2023-09-19T11:10:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T18:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/recruits-learn-firefighting-skills-at-kent-training-center-photos\/"},"modified":"2023-09-19T11:10:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T18:10:00","slug":"recruits-learn-firefighting-skills-at-kent-training-center-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/recruits-learn-firefighting-skills-at-kent-training-center-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Recruits learn firefighting skills at Kent training center | Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recruit Academy 17 keeps nearly 70 firefighters scrambling each week during the 21-week session at the South King County Fire Training Consortium in Kent.<\/p>\n<p>Whether it&rsquo;s climbing an 100-foot ladder, donning their self-contained breathing apparatus or reloading hoses, there&rsquo;s plenty of activity for the 17 recruit firefighters with Kent-based Puget Sound Fire and 50 other recruits from surrounding agencies.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Service means to stand next to others in their time of need,&rdquo; said recruit firefighter Joanna Mckittrick in a Puget Sound Fire Facebook post. &ldquo;To serve is to have compassion, and to put others before yourself.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The academy began in August and concludes early next year.<\/p>\n<p>Recruits train on ladder carries and fire hose deployment. They also receive classroom training on emergency vehicle incident prevention , structural search and rescue and fire ground survival skills.<\/p>\n<p>The South King County Fire Training Consortium is at 20811 84th Ave. S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Climbing an 100-foot ladder, reloading hoses part of the process <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":64479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-64478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64478"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64478"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=64478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}