One can troll the Internet today and find hundreds of articles about training and higher education in the fire service. It is a topic that has been written about on all levels of the profession and yet, at the same time, we never seem to come to a conclusion as to what educational levels really mean to the future of the fire service. There have been numerous attempts to articulate a point of view that a higher education degree should be required for fire chiefs, yet most fire chiefs still only possess a high school diploma. We have not achieved a status of professionalism that is equivalent to the city engineer or finance director. Yet, America's fire problem has continued to expand.
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