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STATUTORY MANDATE
Delaware Code, Title 16, Chapter 66, §6613 – 6618, mandates the Delaware
State Fire School to:
1. Provide firefighter’s with needful professional instruction and training at a
minimum cost to them and their employers
2. Develop new methods and practices of firefighting
3. Provide facilities for testing firefighting equipment
4. Disseminate the information relative to fires, techniques of firefighting, and other related
subjects to all interested agencies and individuals throughout the state
5. Undertake any project and engage in any activity which, in the opinion of the State Fire
Prevention Commission, will serve to improve public safety.
On July 1, 1972, the State Fire Prevention Commission was also given the mandate under
Delaware Code, Title 16, and Chapter 67, §6708 – 6714, to regulate the ambulance service in
Delaware. The Commission assigned to the State Fire School the duty of training ambulance/
EMS personnel.
