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Fire Service Auxiliaries
When most people use the word auxiliary there is the thoughts of female family members of a firefighter family or girlfriend or even friends as part of a group who help a dept by raising funds for the dept to buy equipment or serving food and drinks at a emergency to help keep the crews going during the long hours.
Today some auxilaries may include male members along with the ladies to help the dept. They maybe members who want to stay involved in the dept when they step down from active duty in fire and rescue work.
Some auxiliaries may have done more in the years that a dept was formed and the ladies came a board.
During World War Two while the male firefighters were off to war the ladies stepped up and took over the duties of firefighting until the war ended and the male firefighters returned.
Some auxiliaries have stayed operational for years while others start and fail and restart and disappear again
There are auxiliaties organizations made of auxiliaries from different depts in counties and states around the country.
After all that said I was wondering how other depts work with their auxiliaries and do they do more than the usual activities most people think they do?
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Permalink Reply by Derek J Sinesi on
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Are auxiliary does a lot for us in the terms of fund raising and feeding us. But some of them are involved in the county and state levels and do a lot of for us in Albany to get laws past to help us. But we do have a department in the county that their aux. goes out on the fire scene after the call and helps roll hose and clean up to put things back in service.
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Permalink Reply by Moose on
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We have one (I think) but they rarely show up to emergency scenes with refreshments at all. They are allowed to vote at our monthly meetings including voting for officers, yet they dont show up to fires with coffee and water and some sandwhiches...Nothing.
In my past department their auxilliary was amazing, and they had male members as well, a couple of guys who are handicapped but want to help have joined their group and do well. This group makes large amounts of food ahead of time and freezes it, like chili, soup, lazagna and other stuff so all they have to do is warm it up and serve it. They have multiple coolers with pre-mixed juices and coffees inside where all they have to do is add water and or brew it. They are a great auxilliary.
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Permalink Reply by ashfire on
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I know some fire dept auxiliaries have vehicles that they will use has canteens units. Some will use pickups, vans, to as elaborate like a bus size vehicle to serve food and coffee.
Our county has a ambulance size canteen which also has a built in mobile home toilet to be used on the fireground for those needs.
The unit is kept at a centralized station just off a interstate which runs through the county end to end. The unit can go North or South and reach anywhere in the county in close to 30 minutes.
The unit is staffed by members of the ladies from the county auxiliary association who will respond from their dept's area. So they maybe a member of a depts auxiliary butthey will come out to help at another locataion.
There are depts that have their own canteen units but the county canteen will respond to any incident, but if another incident happens the other canteens will come out to help.
Some areas of the state have alarmer groups which serve has auxiliaries.
One had a large bus vehicle which had a food and drink area, bathroom and a medical treatmant area. One had a old city bus that served as a mobile rehab unit for cooling or warming crews on incidents.
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Here is a question about training for a auxiliary? I know most have to take food serving classes for health dept reasons for licensing for in station or activity hall use, plus learn the operations of auxiliary or the fire dept to know workings of things.
How many would have their auxiliary take first aid and CPR or even go as far as be C.E.R.T. (Citizen Emergency Response Team) trained?
Are any of them part of Fire Corps as a volunteer group helping the fire dept?
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