New Haven Completes Bigger, Better Fire Fighters Training School
BACK IN 1955, FIRE FIGHTERS of the City of New Haven and others throughout Connecticut who had made wide use of its facilities, learned with dismay that the Fire Department’s much publicized training school, occupying city property between the water front and Water Street, was to be torn down to make room for a new highway. This was the school “dreamed up” by the then Fire Chief, Paul Heinz, and his co-workers, Battalion Chief Thomas Collins (now Chief of Department), Captain Andrew Flanagan, (since retired) and others of his staff.
It was considered the original “training-by-doing” fire school of the nation. Through the years it served as a guide post for other schools and institutions for advanced practical as well as theoretical instruction in the big business of fire protection.
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