The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced in a late afternoon email on Friday, March 7, that particular classes at the National Fire Academy (NFA) in Emmitsburg, Maryland – the nation’s ...

First responders attending the Connecticut Fire Academy are reflecting on what it means to honor a fallen hero, as the state ...

The country's preeminent federal fire training academy canceled classes, effective immediately, on Saturday amid the ongoing flurry of funding freezes and staffing cuts by President Donald Trump's ...

More than two months after FEMA abruptly, and without explanation, canceled classes at the National Fire Academy in Emmitsburg, the agency reversed itself Thursday and said classes at the center ...

A Clay Fire truck sits parked at the fire department (WSBT 22 Photo) TOPICS: FEMA Training program Firefighters Chief Dhoore National Fire Academy Certification Resource management Tornado damage ...

This week, local residents began training to become part of the Community Emergency Response Team, or CERT. The national ...

The academy, which also houses the National Fallen Firefighter’s Memorial, opened in 1973 to combat a growing number of fatal fires nationwide. At the time, the National Commission on Fire ...