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minimum no. of responses for volunteers Do any of your volunteer fire depts. have a minimum number of responses a firefighter must attain in order to maintain active status in the… Started by Jim Conrad in General Firefighting & Rescue Discussion	2	Feb 16, 2013 Reply by Curt Raue
New Friefighter Gear What Do I Need Just wondering if anyone can help me i just became a volunteer firefighter about 4 month's ago and im starting the academy january 5th of 0… Started by Donnie Mathias in General Firefighting & Rescue Discussion	18	Feb 15, 2013 Reply by Trevor
just wanting to know I am posting this to see how long my brothers and sisters have served and what department(county,state) Started by Brandon Cook in General Firefighting & Rescue Discussion	10	Feb 15, 2013 Reply by Peter Reilly
Using Ipads for Incident Management Our department is considering purchasing Ipads for all Battalion Chiefs and up to assist in scene management as well as use in daily oerati… Started by Roger Waters in Tools of the Pros: Equipment & Product Discussion	8	Feb 15, 2013 Reply by Brad Charlton
Burning without a permit/out of control permits How do your departments handle a fire that your called to that either got out of control or was not issued a permit? My department was cal… Started by Bryce Doeschot in General Firefighting & Rescue Discussion	5	Feb 14, 2013 Reply by Josh Chambers
Training vs. Experience It's the age old debate in the fire service of training vs. experiance. Is the older, more experianced firefighter with less training a bet… Started by Jared Smith in General Firefighting & Rescue Discussion	20	Feb 14, 2013 Reply by lutan1
Training Schedule I have just been promoted as the Assistant Chief of Operations in the department I volunteer with. I am also a career Firefighter. As the… Started by Sven Hall in General Firefighting & Rescue Discussion	5	Feb 14, 2013 Reply by FETC
Evaluating Firefighters I am gathering information on methods municipalities and other organizations use to evaluate the performance of uniformed fire department e… Started by Ryland Kendrick in Fire, Rescue & EMS Careers	0	Feb 14, 2013
Where's your "Proper" PPE ?!?!?!? (This is a question I asked in one of the wildland groups, but thought I'd share with everyone...) Can anyone explain to me why it seems th… Started by Ric Smith in General Firefighting & Rescue Discussion	27	Feb 14, 2013 Reply by DAVID GONZALEZ
Fire Alarms/CO alarms Anyone else in the Volunteer side have the problem of members not masking up or atleast have a pack on and a mask close when going into a s… Started by Zach Pfeifer in General Firefighting & Rescue Discussion	14	Feb 13, 2013 Reply by Brian Mackie