08/14/2026
We would like to take a moment to congratulate six of our firefighters who graduated from the Alabama Fire College’s Paramedic Program today. This is a grueling year long program that consists of many classes, almost five hundred clinical hours, and requires a lot of sacrifices and dedication. They not only graduated from this program today, but every single one of them passed their National Registry exam on their very first attempt and will soon be treating patients in the field.
We teach all our of classes and do all of our skill stations at the Madison Public Safety Annex. So we would also like to thank Captain Richard Ennis for leading this group as the Alabama Fire College’s site coordinator at Madison Fire and Rescue.
We would also like to thank the Alabama Fire College and all of our community partners such as our area hospitals, surgery centers, and HEMSI where these students do their clinical rotations that include pediatric, obstetric, psychiatric, emergency room, surgical trauma, and much more to meet the required skills, hours, and patient contacts needed to graduate.
The graduates from Madison Fire and Rescue from R to L are:
Chris Barnes
Josh Gates
Daniel Mink
Seth Stephens
Jon Parsons
Dakota Cartee
Stephen Saint (MTVFR)
The next group of Advanced EMTs and Paramedics begin their classes August 17th, and we look forward to supporting them and their goals as well.