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What if anything does your departments do if you have a member who has little or no participation? Volunteering is what we do but we have people who depend on us. When do they get put on inactive list or are taken off the department? Does any other departments have this problem? We have taken over 10 people off the department in the past year because of inactivity. These people are usually the ones who want to say "look at ME i am a firefighter" but when the tones drop they are no where to be found. Inactivity is not just during runs, but meetings, trainings, and special events.
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Permalink Reply by Dewayne and Diana Bean on
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Agree! It does decrease morale.
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LOL!
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Understand this! Doesn't necessarily mean your dept is worse without them/ It is nice to have people trained in different areas though.
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Permalink Reply by firechief911 on
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we have in our bylaws/sop's that they attend at least 50 percent of meetings we have 2 per month and special events . 70 percent of fires taking in account time of day and if they were working. we dont expect someone working out of town to make every call . also they are not added to roll unless they have been active for three months . unless they have completed training requred by state fire acc. we normally take one or two a year and lose one or two we now have 20 certifed firemen
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Permalink Reply by Chris Sterling on
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Hi,
Our department has a 20% call policy to stay on the brigade. We use Firehouse software to document firefighter activity. We can also send our monthly runs to Harisburg using this program. It even breaks down the calls in catagories, townships, towns we assist, types of calls, etc. If you get below 20% calls answered on the Firehouse print out at anytime, your reminded of this policy. It's posted monthly. If you don't pick it up by the end of the year, you drop in rank. If it continues, you are sent a letter of status. You will be asked to return any dept. property, and your status will become social member as long as dues are paid. Next step is out the door!! P.S. I work 6 days a week, and I'm never below 75%. In other words, it's not that hard to make 20%, yet we have guys that don't!!!
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GOOD job!
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Where do you get the software?
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Permalink Reply by DWAYNE BURTON on
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we have officers that live closer to anybody on the dept and hardly ecer make runs. why i don't know but my thought is if you are not going to make runs the step down as an officer
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CANT REPLY!!!!!!!!to that!
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I believe we picked that up at the fire expo in Harisburg.
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Permalink Reply by Fire Chick on
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we have alot of this in our department, but u know they are just taking space that other people want .. and gear that people can use, and pager people need
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Permalink Reply by Tony P on
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I think that you've received a lot of answers around the same concept. You need to have FD rules (or SOP's) that everybody is aware of, that everybody needs to abide by. Pick a percentage. 20%, 50%, 75% - have it for calls, training, meetings, social if you like. And enforce it. Remember I said in my first post that we don't? We should.
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