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Career Helping Volunteer?
I find myself in a rather difficult position. I am a rather young firefighter, who happened to work very hard as a volunteer and find myself into a career position within 2.5 years of voluntary service. I have both a career firefighting job and a part time firefighting job, but i simply feel like there is more that i can give. I have a college firefighting education, help run the departments explorers post, and a rather fair amount of experience for being only 21, coming from a 2000+ annual run volume house. I've recently started debating on going to volunteer fire departments in the area, who have a much lower run volume, and a much lower amount of city/district funding for training, and many young and inexperienced firefighters to help teach their firefighters more skills than what they've been afforded.
My big dilemma is that i don't want to look like the arrogant young career firefighter who knows everything and is coming to try and change a volunteer house. I'm a young career firefighter who wants to come and help out in departments that don't have many people with the opportunities that have been afforded to me. What are your opinions in what i should do?
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Permalink Reply by Wes Anders on
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You are gonna have some problems for sure but if you are sincere in what your doing and you can help educate firefighters to be safe and perform better then more power to you.
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Permalink Reply by Bill Carlisle on
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Just a thought here, but maybe try working with one department on their training program and invite their mutual aid department to join them on that training and do a good job and word of mouth is a great way to get your feet in the door , and if you are doing this for free it would be a big benefit to the small departments that do not have the monies for training .
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Permalink Reply by Zack Spalding on
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In New York people in your position become state fire instructors. They travel around their local area usually night and weekends and teach state sponsored fire fighter classes like Fire Fighter 1, Pump Ops, etc etc.
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Permalink Reply by Ian Schulte on
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we have state fire instructors here, the unfortunate part is that there is time restrictions on how long you have to be in the service as a level 2 firefighter to be an instructor. So i can't become a state instructor for roughly another 6 months.
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Permalink Reply by Chad on
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Well definatly I'd say you need to get the instructor in 6 months if you are wanting to help out with training. I think it is a great idea for you to help out but I'd say you are gonna have a few people who think you are just showing off. Just keep a level head and good training and they will see the light and come around.
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Permalink Reply by 1092l017pr9w9 on
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my question isin your career are you in IAFF if so whatch out about joining a vol company the company i just left (cause I moved back home) had three guy have to resign cause there union made them
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