{"id":155423,"date":"2023-05-24T11:44:27","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T15:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=155423"},"modified":"2023-05-24T11:44:27","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T15:44:27","slug":"ontario-invests-in-firefighters-local-chief-awaits-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/ontario-invests-in-firefighters-local-chief-awaits-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario invests in firefighters, local chief awaits news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ontario government is <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ontario.ca\/en\/release\/1003049\/ontario-investing-in-life-saving-training-for-firefighters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">investing $700,000<\/a> into several training projects for firefighters across Ontario. The funding will help professional and volunteer firefighters stay safe and expand their skillsets, according to the government.<\/p>\n<p>The Grand at 101 contacted Centre Wellington Fire Chief Tom Mulvey who says the local fire departments are still waiting on word from the province after hearing the announcement.<\/p>\n<p>Monte McNaughton Ontario\u2019s Minister of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development says the investment would aid departments in smaller communities such as Centre Wellington.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI represent a rural riding of Lambton Kent Middlesex, and the overwhelming majority of our departments are run by volunteers. They\u2019re heroes and they deserve our government\u2019s support as well,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re giving them the resources and the training they need to stay safe on the job and save lives,\u201d McNaughton concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Mulvey says his group is in contact with the province sorting out details.<\/p>\n<p>Local stations rely heavily on volunteer, on-call firefighters. McNaughton says a new program will aim to spread knowledge among volunteers like those in Fergus and Elora<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEssentially they\u2019re doing a train the trainer program, so they can train hundreds of professional volunteer firefighters, who can then train those in their department,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt really is about teaching firefighters how to communicate effectively in emergencies and in situations that they encounter in our communities,\u201d McNaughton said.<\/p>\n<p>Mulvey suspects it won\u2019t be long until Centre Wellington hears back about their portion of the funds and can begin to utilize them locally.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the CICW story below:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ontario government is investing $700,000 into several training projects for firefighters across Ontario. The funding will help professional and volunteer firefighters stay safe and expand their skillsets, according to the government. The Grand at 101 contacted Centre Wellington Fire Chief Tom Mulvey who says the local fire departments are still waiting on word from&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":155425,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,223,225],"tags":[7354,2315,2142,4844,26280,14405,2105,26281],"radio":[1376],"origine":[267,25404,269],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155423"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/112"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155423"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155518,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155423\/revisions\/155518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155423"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=155423"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=155423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}