COURSES & PROGRAMS

THERE ARE SEVERAL WAYS TO RECEIVE TRAINING

The Pre-Employment Program is a twenty-two week course offered twice a year.  The first sixteen weeks is an intensive program which combines theory and practical training.  Following this training, there is an additional six weeks of on the job training at a fire department where the recruit responds with a career crew to real emergency calls.  By the end of the Program, the recruit will have gained valuable experience and confidence and is ready for a career firefighter position.

Live fire training can now be provided at the community fire department, thanks to Nova Scotia Firefighters School's Mobile Burn Unit (MBU).  The MBU is state-of-the-art standalone live fire trainer with fixed internal burn pads, external and internal mobile burn pads that has rollover capability.  Participants practice basic search and fire suppression techniques under the close supervision of school instructional staff. 

The Nova Scotia Firefighters School is dedicated to creating and maintaining programs and courses that are relevant to a wide array of fields and disciplines.  Although some of these courses can only be held at the School’s facilities in Waverley, Nova Scotia, most of our offerings can be taught off site at local fire departments or industrial locations throughout the Maritimes.

WHY SHOULD YOU TRAIN WITH US

Becoming a student through NSFS will have you join a community of tens of thousands of students and graduates. Nearing on 45 years experience in fire and emergency training, we offer realistic training scenarios which will challenge you.  Our instructors are all seasoned firefighters and emergency responders who have walked the walk.  We are internationally accredited with both the ProBoard and IFSAC.

Join us … you won’t be sorry!

Since the Nova Scotia Firefighters School provides intensive training in working skills, comparable to actual fire or rescue situations, and although this training is provided under controlled conditions, participants and their Department/Employer must understand that there is some risk of personal injury to participants.

However, as an activity of the Nova Scotia Firefighters School, it must be clear that each participant has been informed of the risks implicit in the program and that his/her registration for the Course explicitly assumes those risks, in effect, holding the School, and/or its employees and instructors harmless in the unlikely event of such injury.