Achievements

• The Academy has the mandate    to train the newly recruited staff and in service personnel and also the employees of Industrial & Commercial establishments and other occupations,.
• R.A.Mundkur Fire and Emergency Service Academy is functioning on Bannerghatta Road, Bangalore since 02-11-1970. 
• Facilities to accommodate and train about 180 personnel, at a time, are available in this Academy.
• The  training programmes are conducted regularly in the training Academy are
  • 6-month basic training for newly inducted Fire Station Officers, Firemen, Fireman Drivers and Driver Mechanics.
  • Regular Refresher Courses for all the ranks of the department.
  • 30-day job oriented course on Fire prevention & Fire Fighting to the general public.
  • 3-day training programme for the employees of Cinema, Petroleum & Explosive storages etc.
  • Special training programmes ranging from 1 to 6 days for the employees and occupants of Banks, Hotels, Police and other agencies, are also arranged on request.
• It is awareness about the fire energy that helps in controlling and containing it. In this direction this Academy  has seriously thought to improve the fire preventive and fire fighting awareness level of both rural and urban society.
• The department has addressed this issue from the grassroots level by   implementing an ongoing program “SAFE” (Students Association for Fire Education), aiming to train the future citizens of this society, the students. For this purpose schools at different levels are selected and subjects like fire prevention, fire fighting, rescue, evacuation and methods of summoning fire service etc are included in their curriculum. Both theory and practical classes are conducted to prepare them to face emergencies. The boys and girls are exposed to Fire Station, equipments in the vehicles, Fire Control Room etc to give an insight in to the functioning of the service.
• “Fire Warden” is a voluntary wing of this department where, citizen can enroll themselves, get trained and assist the department in major disasters.
•  The number of personnel trained under different training programs are:

Sl. No.	Year	personnel trained.
01	1979	193
02	1980	445
03	1981	999
04	1982	628
05	1983	295
06	1984	414
07	1985	464
08	1986	427
09	1987	349
10	1988	324
11	1989	302
12	1990	338
13	1991	284
14	1992	52
15	1993	137
16	1994	368
17	1995	440
18	1996	265
19	1997	1795
20	1998	485
21	1999	1345
22	2000	1273
23	2001	1633
24	2002	1305
25	2003	2335
25	2004	2591
27	2005	2580
28	2006	939
29	2007

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