Leave Your Couch for Real Action in Royersford – The Sanatoga Post

A Royersford firefighter (at top) pulls hose from a truck as he prepares to battle a blaze ROYERSFORD PA – If you’ve ever dreamed of being a firefighter, or longed to know what it was like to experience a day as a first responder in occasionally dire circumstances, the Royersford Fire Department has an offer you may need to wait for … but believes you won’t want to pass up. “You don’t have to be a member to experience what it’s like to put out a real fire,” department firefighter and community relations representative Adam Alberico says. That’s because the department is ready to provide what he describes as the opportunity of a lifetime: “a three-part experience that will take you from your couch to inside a real fire.” Do you have what it takes?, he asks. In what is both a firefighter recruitment effort and an attempt to help the public better understand how firefighters work and the perils they face, Royersford is staging a mock exercise that, so to speak, puts participants into the heat of battle. Sessions for the first class are scheduled for Sept. 22 and 29 (2022; Thursdays), each from 7-9 p.m.; and Oct. 1…
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