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Comment by bill morey on May 18, 2008 at 7:47am

its nice to meet you all be safe

Comment by bill morey on May 18, 2008 at 7:47am

hi yall iam bill from lake city mich iam a LT with the lake missaukee fire dept ive been in the fire service for 28 years , i was also a fire fighter full time with a fire dept a general motors auto plant .

Comment by Butch on May 17, 2008 at 2:15pm

How is everyone, I am new to site I am a volunteer on a combination department, we have a paid crew on all the time after 1700 we go to a captain and firefighter till 0700 our volunteers fill the rest of the equipment and complete crews. We are just south of Louisville in Kentucky our department is Zoneton we have about 45 active members, we just celebrated our 50th year

Comment by travis howell on May 15, 2008 at 10:25pm

I am volunteers in small town in MS one of our old timer broke our light off going to a fire what to you do

Comment by Smokeyjoe85 on May 15, 2008 at 8:09am

I'm new to the site. I'm a volunteer firefighter in a small town called Pelkie,Michigan. I've been with them going on just a year now. Couldn't ask for a better bunch to work with-and a smart crew they are. We just have 3 full time depts in the Upper Peninsula-the rest are all volunteer depts. And there is lots!......Smokeyjoe85

Comment by frank rhodes on May 13, 2008 at 7:06am

i am new to the site i am a vol f/f in a small town in alabama. been in the service fo 20 yrs now and still love it. alot has changed in that time . dont ever let anyone tell you that you cant do the job cause you dont get paid. the paid do it for the money the vol. do it cause they have heart
i was a paid f/f for 10 yrs gave it up cause of the politics and dont regret it a day. if ya have any questions give me a shout on my email trimmer912000@yahoo.com

Comment by Denton W. Ervin on May 12, 2008 at 11:23pm

Hello Everyone,
My name is Denton W. Ervin I am the fire chief of the Mountain Park volunteer fire Department. I have been on the department since 1996. I love what I do even though it has cost me almost everything. On January 3rd 2003 while finishing up the construction of our new fire station the ladder that I was working from broke in half and I fell and broke my back. I was told that by all rights I should have been paralysed from the first lumbar down. But I just have perminent nerve damage. I lost my job and no one will even look at employing me because of the restrictions and the medication. The only thing that we have here in Oklahoma to help us when we get hurt is workers comp.
All they do is treat you like a criminal and an idiot. I have looked ever since I got hurt for anything that might help but there is nothing out there for perminently disabled VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS. THIS has to change I dont want anyone else anywhere to go through what I have and to put their families through what I have. I have tried to get the official people to listen to try and start the discussion on setting up some kind of something to help those who are perminently affected by an accident. I have gotten nowhere. I have not gotten anyone to pay any attention to me. They keep telling us that so much relys on the VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS. BUT the volunteer firefighters have nothing to rely on when WE need help.
I would love to hear what others think about this. DO you think that there needs to be something out there for those that sufffer a perminent disability while serving as a volunteer firefighter?
From what I have experienced since my injury I pray every day that nobody else has to go through what I have.
Thank you for reading!
Everyone be carefull and stay safe.
Denton W. Ervin

Comment by Mark Renninger on May 12, 2008 at 10:48pm

Looking for any information anyone can share about the proper way to do truck dedications. My department acquired several new trucks and I wanted to dedicate them properly - and of course was given the task of coordinating it.

Thanks - Mark Renninger
Fire50@Nefcom.net

Comment by James on May 12, 2008 at 2:25pm

Hey I am volunteer firefighter at little town in state of West Virginia and i don't get paid nothing i have been with
Ghent Vol. Fire Department for 6years now

Comment by Dustin J. Millis on May 7, 2008 at 6:51pm

my name is Dustin, im a volunteer for hebron fire in the little town of hebron, IN. Im farily new to the fireservice and am open to any training ideas or just basic help anyone can give me.

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