F.E. Madill co-op student explores career in firefighting

March 27, 2025 @ 9:00 amLocal News, Police, Rural, Wingham Advance Times

(Cory Bilyea photo)
F.E. Madill Grade 12 student Sara Whitehead, seated in the driver seat of a North Huron fire truck, has ambitions to become a forest-fire firefighter in northern Ontario. She is beginning her training as a firefighter first with the help of both the North Huron Fire Deparment and the Howick Township Fire Department. (Cory Bilyea photo)
WINGHAM – Sara Whitehead’s eyes are pointed skyward as she plans for her future. The F.E. Madill Grade 12 student dreams of learning to fly a helicopter so that one day, she can help fight forest fires up north. As she explored her options, however, Whitehead discovered that helicopter pilot training is very expensive. Not…
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Cory Bilyea is a reporter with Midwestern Newspapers.