New recruits joining the ranks at Fresno City Fire

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- New recruits are joining the ranks astatine Fresno City Fire.

Through speeches and video, Fresno Firefighter Recruits from Class 79 were honored for their hard enactment astatine their graduation ceremonial Friday morning.

Recruits and their loved ones gathered successful City Hall Chambers for the pinning ceremony.

The people began with 26, with 20 making it done the 12 weeks of grooming to graduation day.

George Petersen reflected connected the rigorous grooming and valuation that helium and his classmates endured, arsenic good arsenic the guidance they received.

"Running 30 towers connected our archetypal day, pulling and loading thousands of feet of hose the pursuing week, being successful our turnouts from sunrise to sunset," George Petersen, Fresno Fire Recruit Class #79 Graduate.

For 1 recruit, Wade Kandarian, the time is simply a culmination of years of enactment that volition soon person him moving alongside his father, William.

"It's beauteous surreal to get to that infinitesimal and person them present with me," said Wade Kandarian, Fresno Fire Recruit Class #79 Graduate. "It's a truly bully feeling."

"It's benignant of unique. I mean, for present successful Fresno, there's astir apt a fistful of sons that followed their fathers on. It's ace peculiar for maine and my woman to person him bash that, truthful I'm getting choked up close now," said William Kandarian, Fresno County Fire Engineer.

The caller people marks continued maturation for the department, increasing the regular fig of firefighters connected work a time from conscionable implicit 80 to much than 100 successful the past 3 years. The main said that's made an exceptional quality successful however they tin respond to fires.

"We've accrued staffing connected our occurrence engines from 3 to 4 and conscionable the different day, we had a occurrence wherever 2 victims were rescued. Had we not had those 4 firefighters connected that rig, we astir apt would've had to hold a small spot to get that adjacent motor to spell impact that rescue, truthful the impacts person been huge," said Chief Billy Alcorn, Fresno Fire Department.

The enactment isn't done rather yet, -- they inactive request to walk their probationary period, which volition hap successful 12 months.