Kewaunee County Junior Firefighter Program earns $24,000 state grant

November 18, 2024

KEWAUNEE – The Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services (DSPS) recently presented $24,525 to the Kewaunee County Junior Firefighter Program – one of four recent winners of a DSPS Youth Firefighter Training grant. 

“This is an outstanding example of some excellent partnerships that we have. To have that many students and departments working together to prepare a future workforce is incredible,” Dr. Kathryn Rogalski – vice president of academic affairs and workforce development at Northeast Wisconsin Technical College (NWTC) – said.

The grant will help pay for firefighting equipment for the program’s students who will be taught by NWTC instructors at the college’s Public Safety Training Center in Green Bay. 

Participating schools will recruit interested students for the program, who will then take NWTC’s Entry Level Firefighter course, and subsequently begin limited participation in fire calls with one of the departments.