What is your Department's Biggest Challenge here in WNY?

Particularly in regard to the volunteer department's out there...

In my honest opinion, recruiting volunteers, getting them trained, and then when they are trained and ready to go... keeping them motivated without burning them out, is one of the biggest challenges that we face.

Do you agree... if so, have you or your department figured out ways to solve this challenge?

Looking forward to hearing from my fellow brother and sister firefighters here in western New York...

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Permalink Reply by steve price on September 27, 2007 at 2:59pm

maybe you have been around long enough to remember, but there was an incident involving celing tiles and tires, the tiles were arrainged to form a hallway and a room and the tires were lit, long story short
the instructor and two firefighters were seriously hurt and three were killed when the whole structure flashed
and the attack line was not charged