First warm day of the year… sometimes you just have to have some fun with your peers and bond. Fun time and lots of laughs. Also… has any of the parents been in one of these things since elementary school?? Was pretty fun actually ha!

We had a ton of fun with a surprise Police vs Fire vs CJPS Hot Ones Wing Challenge! Trying to always keep everyone on their toes not knowing what to expect in shop, this certainly “spiced” things up a bit! Shockingly, all the contestants made it through all the hot sauces although Mr. C was clearly the weakest link in the hot sauce chain. Fun time!!!

Fun day getting up to one of our favorite places, the Connecticut Fire Academy. Good friend of the shop and CFA instructor Mr. Zygmunt gave the students a fun tour of the facility, a peek into the world of firefighting, and a cool introduction to the current class of recruits. Fun day! Lots of laughs and general mayhem.

As part of our push for emergency management preparedness, our annual military experience camping trip, and trade knowledge, we finally have received our disaster shelters! These incredible "tents" are hurricane rated and used in almost every Federal agency in the US Government. Students will now be able to set them up, use them for remote classrooms, and camp in them year after year. We set one up today in the cafeteria just to see it.

Lifestar helicopter visited Vinal CJPS today! The students had a lesson on proper landing zone setup and then watched it put to the test! The Lifestar crew was amazing and spent an hour answering all the student questions and showing them their equipment. Our friends at Middletown Fire were amazing as always helping support our shop, set up the landing zone, and talk with the students. THANK YOU LIFESTAR AND MIDDLETOWN FIRE!!!

As part of the CJPS Juniors’ EMT program, we regularly hold our lectures at CCSU for a change of atmosphere during these intense and grueling lessons. Today, as a special treat, the CCSU Criminology Department and the CCSU CJ Club students hosted us for a Taco Party!! There was a DJ, free swag, some program alumni reunions, and a ton of fun. Woo hoo! Tacos!! As a reminder, all CJPS students receive 3-free, fully transferable, credits from CCSU for Intro to Criminal Justice!

All four CJPS Programs (Vinal, Bullard-Havens, Prince, and Windham Tech), 105 students, and 6 buses all came together to help the FAA, New Haven FD, East Haven FD, and Homeland Security for a mock plane crash. It was an amazing training! As a reminder, we are always available to outside agencies to help with training drills!

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Sure, everyone knows how to use a fire extinguisher... but do you really? Students emptied a few fire extinguishers to see how they feel and the extent to which they can be used. Each extinguisher has a surprising amount of dry chemical inside and is able to extinguish large fires.