{"id":1265144,"date":"2023-10-05T08:43:25","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T13:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1265144"},"modified":"2023-10-06T14:29:38","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T19:29:38","slug":"smith-county-fire-marshal-attends-national-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1265144","title":{"rendered":"Smith County Fire Marshal attends national training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1265145\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/10\/SCFireMarsh-131x175.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"131\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/10\/SCFireMarsh-131x175.jpg 131w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/10\/SCFireMarsh.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 131px) 100vw, 131px\" \/>SMITH COUNTY &#8212; Smith County Fire Marshal Chad Hogue was one of 30\u00c2\u00a0 professionals nationwide to be selected to participate in a Wildland Fire Investigator Course in Redding, California. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The class exceeded my expectations. It was a privilege to have instructors with so much knowledge and experience in the wildland fire investigation field,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Hogue said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The U.S. Forest Service and CAL FIRE personnel are topnotch and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m excited to bring back what I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve learned and share it with local fire investigators.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The training was offered September 25-29, 2023, by the U.S. Fire Administration\/National Fire Academy, U.S. Forest Service and California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The five-day class was held at the Northern California Training Center and instructors from the U.S. Forest Service and CAL FIRE led the classes on Wildland Fire Origin and Cause Determination. The training was paid for by the National Fire Academy.<\/p>\n<p>The participants worked in teams and spent many hours working on a scenario, complete with live fire. According to California National Forests, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all about \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Preparation, Logistics and Live Fire Training.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d They gather situational awareness, collect evidence, comb the fire scene for clues, interview witnesses and write a report. The day\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s events include role players, props, fire engines, water and flames. Hundreds of hours go into the logistics, support, and preparation each year, making it the most realistic wildland fire scenario as it can possibly be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SMITH COUNTY &#8212; Smith County Fire Marshal Chad Hogue was one of 30\u00c2\u00a0 professionals nationwide to be selected to participate in a Wildland Fire Investigator Course in Redding, California. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The class exceeded my expectations. It was a privilege to have instructors with so much knowledge and experience in the wildland fire investigation field,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Hogue said. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1265144\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Smith County Fire Marshal attends national training<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":1265147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/10\/SCFireMarsh-131x175.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Smith County Fire Marshal attends national training","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1265144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-08 11:59:44","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/10\/SCFireMarsh-131x175.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Smith County Fire Marshal attends national training","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1265144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1265146,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265144\/revisions\/1265146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1265147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1265144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1265144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1265144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}