Cary Provence: Educational Advisory Committee Report Greetings Oklahoma Firefighters! Hope you are all doing well and surviving this odd heat and rain combination we have been experiencing lately. I’m reporting on the 2021 OSFA State Fire School, as well as the upcoming 2022 school. Like all of you did as well, the Educational Advisory Committee had an interesting two years leading up to the school. Having to cancel the 2020 school was devastating to us and did not come as an Yukon FD easy decision, but it did have a silver lining. It gave us the time and opportunity to make the 2021 school a success, and that was not an easy task. The OSFA staff and Educational Advisory Committee worked extremely hard to make it happen. With four separate sites and all the Covid restrictions, it was a challenge, to say the least. But like Oklahoma Fire Service always does, we faced the challenge head on and came out on top. We ended with a total of 182 individual students attending classes with a total enrollment of 271. Special thanks go to the Tulsa, Sand Springs, Owasso and Broken Arrow Fire Departments for not only allowing us to use their training facilities, but also being so helpful in the logistics of the individual H.O.T. classes. Now on to next year and the 2022 Oklahoma State Fire School. The newly elected OSFA board is working now to form the committee, and once established, members will be hard at work to deliver what we hope to be a bigger and better school. We also seem to have a better handle on the multiple site model of the school that appears to be the future of it for now. Look forward to seeing a lot of you soon and doing anything I can to help the Oklahoma Fire Service. Stay safe and keep pushing forward!
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