Training

The Gatesville Fire Department conducts weekly drills each Tuesday night at 6 pm. These sessions include an interactive learning management system, hands on sessions with our own apparatus, and classroom training taught by our own certified departmental instructors with the help of our library of training tapes.  In those training sessions we generally log over 2,000 total hours a year of training in the 31 Fire Fighting Sections recommended by the State Firefighter's and Fire Marshals' Association pf Texas. Members may also attend many area and state wide schools throughout the year (including the Texas A&M Municipal Fire School held in the spring and summer every year). Members are certified through the SFFMA or the Texas Commission on Fire Protection from the Basic level up to the Advanced level.