BY KENNETH O. BURRIS, JR.
On March 23, 1979, the Fed-eral Government bought the facility previously known as St. Joseph's College. This facility, consisting of 107-plus acres of land and 20 individual structures, was purchased from the Order of the Daughters of Charity. The purchase set into motion the building blocks for the current National Emergency Training Center (NETC).
Originally purchased to house the United States Fire Administration's (USFA) rapidly expanding National Fire Academy (NFA), the facility offered many advantages. The quiet facility located at the base of the Catoctin Mountains offered a unique atmosphere conducive to learning. Its location is somewhat remote from, yet close enough to, Baltimore, Maryland, and Washington, D.C., to enable its transient national and international students easy access to major transportation hubs.
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