Dept. of Fire, Rescue to Hold Recruit Class's Graduation Ceremony

From the County of Prince William:

On Friday, July 22 at 10 a.m., the Department of Fire and Rescue will hold its graduation ceremony for recruit class 2016-1 at the Hylton Performing Arts Center in Manassas. Battalion Chief Chris Granger will preside over the ceremony.

Class 2016-1 consists of 26 fire and rescue technicians, who successfully completed 26 weeks of rigorous academic and physical training at the Department’s Public Safety Training Center in Nokesville. Each student performed in excess of 1,100 hours of training with total class hours of over 26,000 hours combined. The training consisted of one week of orientation, study skills, health, nutrition and fitness, seven weeks of emergency medical training, 11 weeks of fire training and seven weeks of specialized training.

The department will announce the following graduates: Ryan Allday, Darryl Jones, Martin Osvath, Emily Baden, James Klenk, Joseph Parisi, Daniel Chung, Adam Lienau, John Peddle, Jr., Nathaniel Deghand, Matthew Lyon, Louis Raniszewski, Kevin Ganssle, Joseph McClain, Stephen Soloduk, Ricardo Gibson, Julie McGuire, Philip Spiess, Nathan Huggins, Tyler McLaurin, Michael Volciak, Thomas Hunt, Richard Mitchell, Matthew Waln, Chris Iannuzzi and Michael Olsen.

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