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It’s a new year and a new opportunity to re-align our focus and our commitment to volunteer enlistment. This is the question I ask at the start of every presentation, class or simply conversations with others as passionate about the ...

If you vent too early, oxygen is introduced and the fire can grow. Put water on the fire without proper ventilation and the trapped heat converts the water to steam and everyone’s survivability is compromised. A coordinated attack is critical ...

According to an NVFC.org press release, the National Volunteer Fire Council (NVFC) has been awarded a $2,390,479 Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER) grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to implement a national volunteer firefighter recruitment ...

In his article for Fast Company magazine titled: “4 Tips To Help Millennials Find Meaningful Work“, Adam Smiley Poswolsky makes the argument that young people want to do work with purpose: “They call us the lazy generation, the entitled generation, and ...

While I appreciate that this chief gets the SoldierFirefighter connection, he also thinks Volunteer Firefighters need a name change to put us on par with our partners in the military reserves. What do you think? http://www.firerescue1.com/volunteer/articles/1883831-How-to-rid-fire-service-of-rivalry-with-a-name-change/

Where there’s smoke…there’s a Delaware Volunteer Firefighter! proclaims this web site dedicated to recruiting more for their ranks. Delaware’s recruitment clearinghouse site does a great job of getting the right information in the hands of the right people by sharing scrolling ...

Given the national decline in experience-building fire load (aka-the work we do as firefighters), I’ve written before about the challenge of today’s fire service leaders to dig in and invest more in their firefighters than ever before to prepare them ...

Advertisement for Hiring Pool Leland Volunteer Fire/Rescue Department, Inc. is accepting applications for our 2013 hiring pool. This pool of applicants will be used to fill any part-time or full-time hiring that the department may need for 2013. Once the ...

Loudoun County VA has posted a paid Firefighter/EMT recruitment  to their website at: www.loudoun.gov. FIREFIGHTER/EMT Recruitment #13-F136-322 Date Opened: 12/18/2012 8:00:00 AM Closing Date: 1/2/2013 5:00:00 PM Hiring Range: $40,925 Department: FIRE & RESCUE SERVICE Job Type: Open and Competitive Full/Part-Time: ...

As we’ve shared before, recruiting veterans into the volunteer fire service can be a great solution to our staffing challenges. They might just be the perfect candidate as we don’t have to teach them discipline, respect, honor, loyalty, chain-of-command or teamwork. In return ...