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Lancaster County fire commission says school schedule change will shift high school firefighter training to one-year model

3177564 · May 2, 2025
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Members of the Lancaster County Fire Commission discussed moving the county high school firefighter training program to a single‑year, half‑day schedule after school schedule changes reduced class time.

Members of the Lancaster County Fire Commission discussed plans to convert the county high school firefighter training program from a two‑year sequence into a single, full‑year half‑day program after school scheduling changes reduced available class time.

The change follows what a commission member described as a decision by Cherokee County Schools not to review the contract of instructor Todd Gardner, a move the commission said will end that instructor’s fall teaching at the school. "They told him yesterday that they would not review his contract, and so his program will not happen in the fall," a commission member said during the meeting.

The commission said the…

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