Camp Fury Delaware to offer girls experience in fire and emergency services

The Delaware State Fire School in Dover is hosting its first Camp Fury Delaware Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 19-20. This is an all-girls camp for ages 13 to 17, which will show teenage girls a variety of areas in emergency services. The camp is being coordinated by Delaware State Fire School Senior Instructor Vincent Miller and Sarah Davis, a radiological planner from the Delaware Emergency Management Agency in Smyrna, who is also a firefighter/EMT in New Castle County.

Camp Fury originated in 2009 in Tucson, Ariz., with local fire departments, whose Chiefs were both female. The camp idea has spread across the country and is now in Delaware. This camp is designed to expose teenaged girls to a variety of areas in the emergency and public service sectors, to share what career paths that they can follow, that were traditionally male dominated fields. The speakers at the camp will be from the areas of fire, rescue, and EMS, as well law enforcement and emergency management, and will allow the campers to experience some hands on skills. 

The camp is a two-day, day camp, which will involve some minor exercises and stretching in the mornings, and lead into speakers and the hands-on sessions for each area represented. The girls will have a chance to speak to women from each field, and will be allowed an opportunity to experience some of the skills involved with each job. There will also be some static displays planned, like emergency services vehicles, as well as a tour of the Delaware Emergency Management Agency's Emergency Operations Center in Smyrna. The camp ends with a ceremony with a special guest speaker.

The camp is open for registration for Camp Fury until Friday, July 28, through the Delaware State Fire School website: www.statefireschool.delaware.gov or through the Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/CampFuryDelaware/. 
Any inquiries about the camp may be directed to Miller at 302-739-4773 or vincent.miller@state.de.us.