Recruit Candidate Academy

Can you handle the heat?

From Recruit to Career Ready in just 15 weeks.

Rookie Challenge

Experience whats it's like to be an RCA student for one evening with current RCA students and instructors.

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Student Engagement

RCA students engage with children in their community in grades K-3 with fire and life safety messages. Over 5000 children have been impacted by these messages.

Live Fire Experience

Our philosophy is that a student who experiences more live fire training is a more confident and capable entry level firefighter.

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20 Instructors

All RCA instructors are currently working as emergency responders in their communities, meet them here.

Fire Apparatus

Largest fleet of fire academy engines in the region.

Top Facilities

The RCA at UVU utilizes state of the art live fire facilities where students experience what they study.

"I can honestly say that after four years of earning my bachelor's degree and a year of paramedic school there has not been a single semester more fulfilling than that of the fire academy."

Recruit Landon Flack, Class 67

Engaged learning and hands on training is what we do

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