New East Fork Fire Protection District recruits start their 12-week training Oct. 1 at the Regional Fire Academy in Carson City.
"East Fork has been facing an unprecedented challenge of staff vacancies due to retirements, employee resignations, and academy failures," Chief Tod Carlini said. "Combine that with five-long term injury vacancies, the district has been short staffed by nine vacancies for several months. Most recently two long-time employees with the district retired."
East Fork will have 13 recruits in the academy, which is the single largest recruit class the district has ever fielded at one time. The Regional Academy conducts two programs per year, one in the fall and the other in the spring. Once the recruits complete their training, they will under go two weeks of orientation with East Fork.