Cove’s 2025 Fall Fire Science Class finishes 1st semester training

COVE – Snow is falling, the official start to winter is a couple days away, and a dedicated group of high schoolers have just completed a semester’s worth of rigorous wildland training. Earlier this week, the Cove School District reported that the 1^st semester fire science class officially completed their final day of hands-on training for Fall 2025. This brings an end to weeks’ worth of, as written by the district:

“Cold trailing, scraping, hand line, hose lays, butterflying hose, and Fire shelter Training and triage of a house for fire danger. Of course some steak cooking as well. What a great class!!”

For those unfamiliar, the Cove Fire Science Class, taught by veteran firefighter and Cove Athletics Director Brett Dunten, is a semester-long course offered in the fall and spring providing hands on firefighting training and NWCG certification for Cove High School students. Participating students attend the zero-period class in the early morning, with hands-on training in specific wildland firefighting tasks, and a focus on the effort and commitment of serving as a wildland firefighter.

Elkhorn Media Group Interviewed Brett Dunten and several fire science students about the course back in spring. To learn more about the Cove Fire Science Class, see our previous article here: https://elkhornmediagroup.com/cove-fire-science-program-training-the-next-generation-of-wildland-firefighters/

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(Images posted by the Cove School District)

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