Andover Deputy Fire Chief Graduates From Management Program

ANDOVER - Andover Deputy Fire Chief Keith Weightman graduated from the Massachusetts Firefighting Academy’s Chief Fire Officer Management Training Program, Andover Fire Chief Michael B. Mansfield announced last week.
The Chief Fire Officer Management Training Program helps firefighters improve their ability to lead and manage personnel, provides skills to understand employees’ needs and problems, promotes personal productivity, increases the capacity to manage both human and technical resources, and increases inter-agency cooperation.

The Massachusetts Firefighting Academy, a division of the Department of Fire Services, offers this 14-week program tuition-free. Weightman graduated on Feb. 2.

This program establishes benchmarks for training in fire and emergency service management so that chiefs may be better prepared to serve their department and community.
Thirty other graduates in the program serve the fire departments of Barnstable, Burlington, Cambridge, Concord, Dartmouth District 1, Foxborough, Gloucester, Halifax, Harwich, Hingham, Leicester, Lynn, Marshfield, North Andover, Northbridge, Orleans, Oxford, Plainville, Revere, Sandwich, Tewksbury, Waltham, Westborough, Westfield, Weston and Worcester.