A class of high school cadets is going through fire training at the Montgomery County public safety training academy.
The cadets, all juniors from local high schools, spent their first day training in full gear.
The program goes throughout the school year and represents a new partnership between the fire department and MCPS.
The training itself only gets harder from here as the cadets will eventually face and put down actual fires in the outdoor training areas.
"They'll leave here out of high school with the equivalent of 15 college credits in the University of Maryland educational system so that is huge,” said Fire Training Academy Assistant Chief Adam Jones. “They will have a board certificate that they can take anywhere in the country."
Through hard work, the course is intended to turn the teenage individuals into a team.