Fire engineering

Safety Supervisors, Safety Engineers and Safety Managers in industrial projects like Construction, Chemicals and Fertilizers, Petroleum, Aluminum, Automobiles and many more. Likewise, there is a widespread demand for Fire Control Personnel in all these industries (right from the design stage up to operation/ production/ construction) more so in those dealing with inflammable substances. Fire Fighters, Fire Control Supervisors, Fire Engineers and the Officers-in-Charge of the Fire Stations are becoming indispensible specialists. And hence the obvious opportunities for those who have the training and the mindset to fill the bill and deliver with confidence.

Yes, I think you can do it through distance education.
The NFA shares its 107-acre (0.43km2) Emmetsburg campus with the Emergency Management Institute (EMI) operated by the Directorate of Preparedness branch of FEMA. The campus also includes the Learning Resource Center (LRC) library, the National Fire Data Center, and the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial.
The campus was the original site of Saint Josephs Academy, a Catholic school for girls from 1809 until 1973. It was purchased by the U.S. Government in 1979 for use as the NETC.
In 2008, the National Fire Academy trained over 122,000first responders from all 50 U.S. states.
The campus library at the National Fire Academy collects resources on fire, emergency management and other all-hazards subjects. With its collection of more than 208,000 books, reports, periodicals, and audiovisual materials, the NETC Library facilitates and supports student and faculty research and supplements classroom lectures and course materials. Internet users may access the library's online catalog to perform their own literature searches.[15]The NETC Library catalog is a unique guide to periodical literature with citations on fire, EMS, emergency management, natural disasters, and homeland security topics going back to the early 1970s. Librarians on staff index nearly 5,000 newly published articles each year, from scores of professional journals, magazines and newsletters across the country and internationally.