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Urbandale Fire Department outlines pathway program to recruit EMT students as interns
Summary
The Fire Department proposed a multi-step pathway to recruit EMT students and high-school candidates, providing weekly station integration and an extended competency timeline to improve retention and candidate fit; council received the overview, no formal vote taken.
The Urbandale Fire Department presented a new “pathway” program intended to recruit and develop prospective firefighters by engaging EMT students and high-school candidates early in training.
“...the pathway, is we're gonna hire or select interns. These are young people that are already in EMT classes that we will go through a selection process, 1 per shift, to say we think that you have the potential to be a good Urbandale firefighter. And they will be with us 1 day a week,” the Fire Chief said during the meeting.
The chief told…
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