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Our History

The Georgia SPARTAN Firefighter Course was started in Douglas in 2018. The class was written to be an “in-house” class, but once others outside of the Douglas Fire Department heard about it, interest in the class grew and we opened the class up to outside agencies. The course is a 1 day/24 hour class that was written for newer firefighters to expand their basic skills while learning that they can push themselves, both mentally and physically, past their own expectations and still succeed on an emergency scene. The class stresses physical and mental preparedness, firefighter survival, interior search and rescue, and live fire during the class. The class size is held to a maximum of 12 students because of the class structure. Each graduating SPARTAN receives a SPARTAN number and is eligible to come back and help teach within the program. Although the class…