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The Northwest Florida Volunteer Firefighter
Weekend began as an idea of the Florida State Fire College in 2005.
They wanted a fire department to host this event, and the Valparaiso
Volunteer Fire Department agreed to do it.
In the spring of 2006, we began our planning and the first annual
Northwest Florida Volunteer Firefighter Weekend was held December 8-10, 2006.
Valparaiso Volunteer Fire Department partnered with the Florida State
Fire College,
the Florida Fire and Emergency Services Foundation, and several corporate
sponsors to produce this free training event.
The event was a huge success with over 140 volunteer firefighters from
more than 40 departments. The
volunteer firefighters received over 1700 hours of training during the weekend.
In early 2007, we began planning with the Florida State
Fire College
for the Second annual event. We
decided that we should become an independent not-for-profit 501 c(3) organization.
The necessary forms were filed with the State of
Florida
and on May 7, 2007 we become “Northwest Florida Volunteer Firefighter Weekend
Council, Inc.” The Northwest
Florida Volunteer Firefighter Weekend Council once again has partnered with the Florida State Fire College and the Florida Fire and
Emergency Services Foundation to provide FREE training to volunteer
firefighters.
The Northwest Florida Volunteer Firefighter
Weekend Council, Inc. is under the direction of a Board of Directors, comprised
of Charlie Frank (President), David
Henderson (Vice-President) and Coleman Sachs (Secretary/Treasurer).
Our offices are located at
431 Valparaiso Parkway, Valparaiso, FL 32580.
Our goal is to provide FREE quality “hands on”
and classroom training for volunteer firefighters.
This training is provided by highly qualified instructors who are well
known throughout the Southeastern United States.
