We first began in 2016 with a chat with then Chief Matt Sullivan of Chapel Hill FD and Kathi Breweur, Director of CTE for CHCCS. After some planning we offered our first courses in August of 2017. Over the past few years we have had more than 50 firefighter candidates.
It hasn't been easy. For the last couple years due to construction at CHHS we have been holding class where we could. We are excited that with the completion of the new school. We will have our own learning lab. Complete with 2 bays for our apparatus, 2 classrooms, storage, and space for training.
Our classroom was the Cafeteria