WHO: The Coast Guard, the Virginia Port Authority and the Virginia Maritime Association.
WHAT: The media is invited to the Thursday session, which involves shipboard firefighting training scenarios during the week-long symposium.
WHEN: Thursday at 10 a.m.
WHERE: General Dynamics, NASSCO Earl Industries at 2 Harper Ave., Portsmouth, VA 23707
Media interested are requested to contact Lt. Scott Williams at 757-434-1858 or at scott.k.williams@uscg.mil
PORTSMOUTH, Va. — The Coast Guard is participating in the 22nd Annual Robert E. Rumens Marine Firefighting Symposium, hosted by the Virginia Port Authority and the Virginia Maritime Association from Monday to Saturday.
The symposium includes classroom sessions on ship construction, correct ship boarding procedure, shipboard firefighting training scenarios at the Naval Shipboard Firefighting School and training scenarios aboard Navy's Sealift Command ships. More than 100 members from local fire, police and industry partners are participating in the event.