Testing facility for firefighter candidates opens in Homewood

A consortium of south suburban fire departments on Wednesday opened the region’s first firefighter candidate testing center, a major step toward aligning local hiring practices with national standards.

Mutual Aid Box Alarm System Division 24, which consists of 20 departments in southern Cook County that assist one another through mutual aid agreements, partnered with the National Testing Network, a pre-employment testing service, to launch the testing facility at MABAS Division 24 headquarters in Homewood…Please click here to read Zak Koeske’s story in the Tribune/Daily Southtown.