<div class='inside_text'>The first officer's training class was in August 1959</div> <div class='inside_text'>Another class during October 1959</div> <div class='inside_text'>The Fire Commissioner's Office got the go ahead for the training school from the Alberta Legislature</div> <div class='inside_text'>Austin Bridges and Vermilion Mayor Charles Heckbert</div> <div class='inside_text'>A truck from the Bowden Institute was one of the first training apparatus</div> <div class='inside_text'>Students were housed and feed at the Vermilion School of Agriculture</div> <div class='inside_text'>This is a 1961 classroom</div> <div class='inside_text'>Another training class</div> <div class='inside_text'>College farm structures were used for training</div> <div class='inside_text'>Today's smoke tower was one of the earliest permanent structures for the training school</div> <div class='inside_text'>Vermilion fair grounds provided another field training site</div> <div class='inside_text'>Training during the 1960s</div> <div class='inside_text'>Proximity to the Vermilion River Reservoir provided another field training opportunity</div> <div class='inside_text'>More training on the college farm</div> <div class='inside_text'>The fleet of training trucks</div>