FEMA reopens National Fire Academy after nearly three-month, DOGE-driven shutdown - The Southern Maryland Chronicle

FEMA reopens National Fire Academy after nearly three-month, DOGE-driven shutdown - The Southern Maryland Chronicle

Almost three months after the Federal Emergency Management Agency abruptly canceled classes at the National Fire Academy, saying it would only support mission-critical functions, someone at FEMA apparently decided that fire training is critical to the agency’s mission.FEMA announced Thursday that classes would resume June 2 at its “national schoolhouses”: the National Fire Academy and the National Disaster and Emergency Management University, bo…