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The Tennessee Firefighting Commission recently changed the registration cutoff for events from 14 days to 5 days. This decision, which was based on the feedback we received from members of the Tennessee
fire service, is intended to give firefighters more time to submit prerequisites. This was a much-needed change. However, we need your help if this change is going to be successful.
Going forward, our staff will review registrations in advance and notify firefighters of missing items in order to give them time to submit the required documentation by the identified cutoff date.
This notification will be generated via Acadis.
It is imperative that firefighters take the appropriate action upon receipt of the notification or risk missing out on the
event.
The list of prerequisites for each certification requisites can
be found on our website.
Once our rules are updated to reflect this change, any registration missing the required documentation by the cutoff date will
not be registered for the event. In the meantime, we ask for your assistance with spreading the word throughout your departments about this change.
If you have questions about these changes, please contact Commission Executive Director Eric Barlow by phone at (615) 920-1589 or by email at
eric....@tn.gov.
Finally, we encourage you to attend (either in person or virtually) our upcoming May rulemaking hearing, work session, and business meeting. We hope to see you there!
Rulemaking Hearing and Work Session
Date: Tuesday, May 5, 2026
Time: 9:00 am EST
To attend this meeting via Webex,
follow the link.
Commission Regular Business Meeting
Date: Wednesday, May 6, 2026
Time: 9:00 am EST
To attend this meeting via Webex,
follow the link.
Location:
Park Vista Hotel
705 Cherokee Orchard Road
Gatlinburg, TN 37738
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