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I believe that I read on a posting at my hall that it was not going to include actuall firecalls or training Just that for paid public education time And you had tohave x amount of hours to qualify.Which in our case we are not paid for that so it is rendered useless so it's a great idea if it includes what we are actually paid for.
That would be kind of a waste
we do not do much public education - well any for that matter
we are a combination department and our Career guys do that