EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WFIE) - The Evansville Fire Department celebrated some of its new recruits today.

Friends, family, and community members made their way to Ivy Tech to honor the new graduates.

The graduating class was made up of two seperate academies and one recruit from Boonville.

Two of them were recognized for standing out in their academy training, and received ‘Distinguished Recruit Awards.’

“I appreciate all of our instructors. They were the best instructors we could ask for. Lots of knowledge between all of them, and all of our classmates,” Stetson Ludwig says. “Everybody that came through to ensure our success from the instructors to additional instructors brought in and the opportunities afforded to us to get through it. It all came together.“

The recruits will now begin th

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