Given the current COVID-19 pandemic, MDFR took extraordinary safety measures, including mask-wearing and social distancing, to help ensure continuous professional career development for the graduating recruits. All this was done with consideration for the safety and wellbeing of the fire recruits and instructors, without compromising our mission of developing probationary firefighters that are day one ready to fulfill the mission of Miami-Dade Fire Rescue.

Following rigorous and skilled training, a total of 24 recruits from Class 147 will officially receive their badges and become full-time Miami-Dade Fire Rescue firefighters.

During the graduation ceremony, uniformed recruits from Class 147 will receive their certificates and have their badges pinned by MDFR Fire Chief Alan R. Cominsky.

Friday’s ceremony will be live streamed so friends and family of the recruits can watch live. Given this health emergency, attendance to the ceremony will be limited to necessary fire personnel, the recruits, and selected guests of the recruits.

Watch live: https://vimeo.com/619194946

Media Note: Interviews will be available in English and Spanish.