Polk County Georgia Fire Rescue

Great training opportunity between Polk and Paulding Counties.

Saturday, April 18th, personnel from Polk County Georgia Fire Rescue, Polk County Emergency Management Agency, and Polk County CERT participated in a joint training exercise with Paulding County along the Silver Comet Trail.

The exercise simulated a missing hiker scenario and focused on strengthening interoperability between agencies operating across jurisdictional lines. Polk County deployed two UTVs, allowing crews to cover more ground efficiently, while Paulding County successfully integrated radio communications to ensure direct coordination between field personnel and Incident Command.

Training opportunities like this are essential to enhancing coordination, communication, and overall response effectiveness. We value our continued partnership with neighboring agencies and remain committed to maintaining a high level of readiness to serve our communities.

Members of PolkCounty Fire a Rescue spent the Last two weekends completing 32 hours of HAZMAT Training to the Awareness and Operations Level. Personnel learned how to identify HAZMAT Incidents and take defensive actions to lessen the impact to those that could be impacted by an event. Some of the Skills included building overflow and underflow dams, v***r dispersion and suppression, Emergency Decontamination and several other skills. Thank you to their families for supporting them in the department. Also, thank you to our evaluators from Haralson and Cobb County Fire Departments.