MISSION STATEMENT The Gloucester County Fire Training Academy is a center for initial learning and continuing education on topics of interest to emergency response personnel. Through affordable, and accessible training, the fire academy promotes, safety, competency, skills development, personal and organizational growth.

The Gloucester County Fire Training Academy offers highly quality training that is both timely in tactics, techniques and safety.  Classroom instruction is provided in one of four spacious classrooms with the latest in audio and visual instructional aids.   Practical training is available in either our modern burn building, full-sized aircraft trainer or realistic ranch style smokehouse dwelling.  Additional live fire training is offered through one of many field props.

The County of Gloucester prides itself on offering a full range of mandatory training courses as well as a large selection of specialty training programs for the fire service.   A complete listing of training courses that are being offered is listed on the In-Service Training page.  All programs are delivered by State Certified instructors and where needed staff with special certifications in such areas as; EMS, Specialized Rescue and Industrial Fire Brigade training.

In addition to the many courses that are offered at the academy, The County of Gloucester proudly offers customized training for emergency services organizations and various industries.  Lastly, the fire academy offers satellite programming for many organizations as well as the New Jersey, Division of Fire Safety, along with Kean University. Please feel free to contact our academy for complete details on these types of training.