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The Town of Hilton Head Island is now taking applications for the position of firefighter/EMT. i'm talking about it this morning on Firehouse Zen: http://firehousezen.com
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Permalink Reply by George A. Laiacona III on
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I'll have to wait and see what's open after I finish Paramedic School.
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Permalink Reply by Mick Mayers on
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No, he's looking for people experienced in giving him a headache.
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Permalink Reply by Gregory Borg on
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Ben, Jack and I are both going to come and work for you. Then we can talk at the kitchen table!
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Permalink Reply by John Crabbe on
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Ben, Jack and I are both going to come and work for you. Then we can talk at the kitchen table
I like my job and my hometown, I can handle the snow and cold, but I just can't seem to drawl my words out southern style, so count me out of the applications. However, a visit to a nice warm beach area is always a nice visit, so count me in to eat some popcorn while I watch the show around the kitchen table.
:-)
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Permalink Reply by Barry Copley on
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I'd like to apply for the position but I live too far away.I'm a Volunteer in the town of Kermit West Virginia.We cover Mingo and Wayne counties as well as give mutual aide to Warfield Kentucky from time to time.
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Permalink Reply by FETC on
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We have a state entrance exam, 400 apply, then CPAT test, between the two it knocks out over half. We offered letters of interest to 80 and will interview the best 8. All fully trained, certified and field experienced. All for an eligibility list, no current openings.
Back in the day, it took me 5 years to get hired. Things are a bit different up north.
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Permalink Reply by Ben Waller on
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And that would be a new thing...how?
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Not gonna happen. You'll be too busy training to sit at the kitchen table, let alone talk. The training chief will see to it...I hear he's hard core.
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We do some of the testing in other regions to cast a wide net. I want to say we have off site testing in the west, midwest, and northeast at the same time as the local test, then thin out the list to the phyiscal exam, and then interviews. But Ben would be the expert on all that.
When I got on 29 years ago, I was the 20th employee of the department. We had volunteers then, and I signed on as a vollie, and I think they got so sick of seeing me in the station every day, when the department needed someone to stand by at the airport for the Island's first large commercial aircraft landing, he told me to put in my application and he'd hire me.
Things have changed radically since then. I like to think that decision worked out for them, though.
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See my earlier reply to FETC. We advertise nationwide and conduct regional exams, but when it comes down to it, we really want people who really want to work with us. We have a large number of employees who have come here from around the nation: PA, NJ, OH, CA, MD, VA, MA, IL, IN, GA, TN, and those are just some of the ones I can think of while standing here.
While I am proud to work here, I also want to be realistic. We don't run as many fires as departments in urban centers because of a number of factors, but we do have fires. The difference is that we focus on prevention. We don't run as many multitrauma calls as a lot of places, but we run our share. And when we do, we have an extremely high standard of care. And while we have new equipment, stations, and apparatus, it's not like we have an open pot of money. Our community is struggling in this economy, but instead of laying off employees, we have all sucked it up over the past two years and worked together as a team to trim costs, no one took a raise (other than for promotions), and we changed some of the way we do business. As a result, we have lost no personnel, but have cut our budget to limit our impact on the community. Our department works very closely with the community and has a good relationship with the elected officials, the locals, and the visitors.
And we do have a few grouchy employees. The difference is that the grouchy employees are a very small minority. We are a very professional organization, we don't have room for nonsense. We train a lot and we work hard, but we have a very good team of people. We are really looking for others who enjoy that kind of job.
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