{"id":80105,"date":"2022-02-02T16:38:19","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T21:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=80105"},"modified":"2022-02-02T16:38:19","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T21:38:19","slug":"tuition-free-wildfire-fighter-training-still-accepting-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/tuition-free-wildfire-fighter-training-still-accepting-applications\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuition-free wildfire-fighter training still accepting applications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">North Island College (NIC) <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">in Campbell River is starting another round of tuition-free four-week-long <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nic.bc.ca\/programs\/continuing-education-and-training\/vocational-training\/wildfire-crew-member-training\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">wildfire crew member training<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> at the end of this month.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instructor Henry Grierson, who\u2019s been in the forestry and wildfire suppression industry for some 40 years, told CKTZ News that while past students are often young people starting out on their career path, some are also older folks who are looking for a change.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The course will run Monday-Friday 8 a.m.-5 p.m. and provide a balance of theoretical and technical knowledge. <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The curriculum was vetted by <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ciffc.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre<span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (<\/span>CIFFC<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">)<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which means the training is recognized across Canada<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The program, which also ran last year, is offered <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">in partnership with <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Strategic Natural Resource Consultants and is free to successful applicants, thanks to funding provided by the Government of Canada through the Canada-British Columbia Workforce Development Agreement.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the full interview with instructor Henry Grierson about what kind of person is a good fit, the challenges and rewards of the job and what to expect in the program:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Island College (NIC) in Campbell River is starting another round of tuition-free four-week-long wildfire crew member training at the end of this month.\u00a0 Instructor Henry Grierson, who\u2019s been in the forestry and wildfire suppression industry for some 40 years, told CKTZ News that while past students are often young people starting out on their&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":80107,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[221,222],"tags":[12322,11262,4864,12323,2673,12321,1318],"radio":[252],"origine":[280,266,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80105"}],"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\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80105"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=80105"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=80105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}