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SWANSEA - A North Attleboro resident received an outstanding student award when the Massachusetts Firefighting Academy graduated a class of call and volunteer firefighters recently at Case High School.

Carrie Caldwell of North Attleboro received the Martin McNamara Memorial Award for Outstanding Student.

The award is named after McNamara, a volunteer firefighter who was killed in the line of duty battling a structure fire in Lancaster in 2003.

She was one of 13 graduates from local fire departments who attended the training session. The trainees spent 140 hours training on nights and weekends over 4 1/2 months and attained certifications.

Graduates from North Attleboro along with Caldwell included Richard Cullen and Scott McGuire.

Area graduates

Rehoboth graduates were Matthew Clifford, Timothy Dixon, Chris Johnson, Jacob Miranda, Tony Rayl and Taylor Withers.

The graduates from Seekonk were Britney Caouette, Michael Gilligan, Brian Rainey, and Stephen Sroka.

The remainder of the graduates were from Berkley, Dartmouth, Dighton, Mattapoisett, Middleboro, Swansea, Wareham and Westport.
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RLincoln wrote on Jul 8, 2009 9:59 PM:

" So what is the point of your complaint? These people were already call or volunteer firefighters, and then attended the academy to bring their training and credentials up to a minimum, safe level to operate at the scene of a fire. How does that give them an advantage over anyone? Anyone else could have applied to be a call FF and done the same. You are totally incoherent. "

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sabdab wrote on Jul 8, 2009 9:34 PM:

" what the... have you noticed that police and firefighters have been related for decades... my grandfather was a firefighter and guess what, so were 2 of my uncles (different towns, and back in the 70's)... when you grow up with it in your family, it becomes part of your life. "

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what the wrote on Jul 8, 2009 7:59 PM:

" you clowns are dreaming, re-read my statements, they are 100% accurate. these people are all related to some hot shot in town and will all be hired full time/permanent before people who weren't so lucky to have this "training" set up for them. you can live in a dream world if you want, but that's a fact jack. more then 60% of the nafd are related to each other, somehow. i am neither ignorant on this subject, nor naive, just honest observation. check it out. there was money from the fire dept. budget spent on these people. so don't insult our intelligence, and insinuate these kids paid over $1000 for their own equiptment and then paid their own tuition, too. sabdab, you do know how it works, and you are trying to pull the wool over the taxpayers eyes. in this town of "politics first", is it so much to ask everybody be given the same opportunity at a job. "

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sabdab wrote on Jul 8, 2009 10:58 AM:

" "What the" has made it very evident he has no idea how this works... if you want to become a "call firefighter" or "reserve police", you pay for your equipment and training all by yourself. The city/town you will work for (sometimes more than 1 at a time) does not pay for this. To be full time, you have to then go onto the academy again supported by the town. Guess this wasn't your career of choice so you have no idea how it works. "

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resident704 wrote on Jul 8, 2009 8:58 AM:

" what the wrote on Jul 8, 2009 8:24 AM:
" isn't this nice. is this the new way the small town politicians get their kids jobs on the fire dept?

_They are call and volunteer firefighters. These are not career positions.

what the wrote on Jul 8, 2009 8:24 AM:
and since when does the call firefighters have an academy,

_Umm where do you think call and volunteer departments learn fire operations? Do you think they are a bunch of yahoos who like having lights and sirens on their POV who know all there is to know and don't need to go to school to learn how to do the job safely and effectively?

Thank you "what the" for letting everyone know how ignorant you are.

Thank you for "

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what the wrote on Jul 8, 2009 8:24 AM:

" isn't this nice. is this the new way the small town politicians get their kids jobs on the fire dept? it use to be fair, you took the civil service test and a list came out. now you go right to the top of the list by knowing someone that gets you the oppurtunity to get these special qualifications that nobody knows about. abracadabra, you're hired. sorry all you nobodys, hahaha minorities, back to the streets. what a disgrace. and since when does the call firefighters have an academy, and who the heck is paying for that? "

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kevin h. wrote on Jul 8, 2009 7:57 AM:

" Who wrote this? "

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