Warrensville Heights High School offers the Tri Heights Fire Tech program serving junior and senior scholars from Warrensville, Maple Heights, Bedford Heights, Shaker Heights and Cleveland Heights school districts. The Tri Heights Fire Tech program provides students 60 credit hours toward an associate’s degree, emergency medical training (EMT) and firefighter’s license plus certification – all before they cross the high school graduation stage.
High school juniors take firefighter awareness, EMT awareness, CPR and two National
Incident Management System courses. While seniors complete the Fire/EMT curriculum during the first part of the school day and then travel to Cuyahoga Community College’s Western Campus for Basic Fire Academy training.
On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays,
the firefighting students have academic days, during which they complete
reading assignments and take notes.
Tuesdays and Thursdays are physical training days, during which students perform aerobic activities such as running around a track or to a local fire station. This week, our students were able to engage in a wood chopping activity.
Last year, WHCSD—Class of 2018 had a graduate not only cross the stage but, right into the fire station at the E. Cleveland Fire Department!
The Tri Heights Fire Tech program has an agreement with North Randall, Highland Hills and Warrensville Heights fire departments to hire Fire Tech graduates as part-time firefighters. Once they graduate, students can receive a $2,000 scholarship to pursue a paramedic certification, thanks to the KeyBank Foundation.
This week we hosted a visit from the Chief, just in time for Fire Prevention Week.