I blog frequently about recruiting and retaining volunteer firefighters, focusing particularly on the decline in the number of volunteer firefighters in the USA and why that is.
Below are my blogs, in reverse date over.
Warning: a lot of fire chiefs and career firefighters don’t like what I have to say. Being supportive of volunteer firefighters, and believing they are essential, even when financial times are NOT tough, does not make one popular in such circles, who either don’t like volunteers or see them as a threat to career firefighters.
Most of these are USA-centric, but international issues are addressed as well in several of them:
- How to counter the ongoing drop in volunteer firefighter numbers.
- Brilliant volunteer firefighter recruitment video from Germany.
- Volunteers needed, but are they wanted?
- Making certain volunteers feel unwelcomed because of your language
- pro vs. volunteer firefighters
- Fire station turns away volunteers – & how it could be different
- Great reasons to involve LOCAL volunteer firefighters.
- why you can’t find/keep volunteer firefighters.
- pro vs. volunteer firefighters.
- International Association of Fire Fighters is anti-volunteer.
- New online resources to help recruit volunteer firefighters.
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