Fire recruits from across the Coast prepare for high-intensity days at ‘shift out of luck’ training

BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) — 11 recruits from Biloxi, Ocean Springs, Long Beach, and Gautier fire departments felt the burn at Fire Station 7 Thursday.

They came together for “Shift Out of Luck” – a day at the station where the calls don’t stop coming.

“‘Shift Out of Luck’ is an event we host at the conclusion of every recruit class that really takes all the skills the recruits have acquired over the past 12 weeks- the bookwork, the hands-on training- and really gives them an opportunity to apply that knowledge and skills to real life or as close to real life scenarios as we can simulate,” Wes Small, the assistant chief of the Biloxi Fire Department, said…

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