Time to cool things off. Oxnard College Regional Fire Academy cadets, Battalion 34, had their Fall Semester graduation on Dec. 12 at the college’s Camarillo Airport Fire Technology facility.
Battalion 34 graduated 35 cadets. Congratulating the cadets were members of the Ventura County Community College District Board of Trustees, Ventura County Fire Dept., Oxnard College administration and the cadets’ professors.
The cadets began the ceremony by demonstrating the skills they learned during the academy training. These included rappelling from a five-story tower, putting out a “wildland” fire, an automobile fire, and extricating an injured person from an automobile using the “jaws of life.” The cadets were joined by more than 200 family and friends who attended the ceremony.