Crime & Safety
Riverhead Fire Department To Hold Graduation For Local Firefighters
The graduation will be for firefighters who took a 30 hour course with the U.S. Coast Guard in Maritime Search and Rescue
The Riverhead Fire Department will be holding their graduation on Friday at 6 p.m. for firefighters who took a 30 hour course with the U.S. Coast Guard in Maritime Search and Rescue.
The graduation class this year has over 80 graduates from:
- Eastport
- East Quogue
- Quogue
- North Sea
- Southampton
- Flanders
- Riverhead
- Mattituck
- Cutchogue
- Southold
- Shelter Island
- Sag Harbor
- Orient
- Montuak
- Springs
- East Moriches
- Center Moriches
The course has been in place for the last three years. It teaches fire departments with boats how to assist the US Coast Guard by being taught Search Patterns, Basic Search and Rescue Procedures, Basic Radio Communications, Risk Assessment, Personnel Protective Equipment, Emergency Procedures, Basic Navigation, Chart Plotting, and Person In The Water Recovery.
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Graduates will receive their certificates and each chief of the department will sign a Memorandum of Understanding with the US Coast Guard. Captain Edward Cabanski (Commander Sector Long Island Sound) will be presenting the certificates and signing the MOU’s for the Coast Guard.
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