I've been in my fire department since I was 12, that is as young as you can be to get accepted. As soon as I got done with the 6 month probation(we had no checkoff sheet at the time)I was able to ride 10-18 in any truck and also get a friend or family member to bring me to a call. Since the department is so small juniors pretty much got to do everything the yellow helments got to do except for going interior firefighting and hydrolic equipment on calls. Now the firemen and the board are saying no, I cant ride in the trucks anymore because technicly your to supposed to if your under 18(the cheif got scared cause we had a junior get hurt being stupid one day, almost killed both of us)...but their 3 and 4 year old kids can because they are their kids. Does that make sence? After 4 almost 5 years of being in that station and riding in those trucks, I know every truck like the back of my hand. Now if we get a call while im at the station I cant go. I can't even ride to the gas station to fuel up on Sunday stand by, and I check off every trucks by myself every stand by! If anybody knows anything about these rules or a way to get around them somehow please help. thanks