Custer County Students Attend Xplore Academy

Two students from Custer County School District attended a four-day Fire Fighting Skill Camp at Aims Community College in Windsor, Colorado, this month. Aims College offers a Summer Xplore Camp, a 15-week course to obtain a Fire Academy Certificate and many associates degrees in the Public Safety fields. The Windsor campus has the only climate-controlled Candidate Physical Ability Test (CPAT) training and testing center in the state of Colorado.
John Tillotson, Battalion Chief, Training Officer and Junior Firefighter Trainer with the local Wet Mountain Fire Protection District, was there with the students.

Attendees Logan Nameth and Chris Carter, both incoming seniors, have an interest in firefighting for future, wildland and/or structure.
The four-day camp activities included repelling, extrication, fire behavior, fire attack for structure and car fires, and SCBA training. They also got educated on a ladder truck, flight helicopter and wildland and structure fire trucks.
Trainer Tillotson said, “They also had to do fitness tests similar to what career firefighters have to do in fire academy.”

For more information on Aims College or Aims Summer Xplore Academy see https://www.aims.edu/