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Council considers recruitment push for volunteer fire responders and training partnerships
Summary
Council members discussed a recruitment campaign targeting high-school seniors and career-center programs to rebuild volunteer fire ranks and noted a county-level training program has been shut down recently; a new fire commission will prioritize reviving training in coordination with county council.
Council members raised concern about decreasing volunteer ranks in the fire department and proposed a targeted outreach and recruitment campaign aimed at high-school seniors and career-center programs.
A Committee member (S6) suggested coordinating with local high schools and the career center to promote volunteer firefighting opportunities and to present the program at senior assemblies. “Maybe you don’t have people who want to be full time, but they wanna be volunteers,” the member said.
Staff (S8) confirmed a prior training program at the career center had been shut down in the last two years but said the new fire commission has placed restoring that program on its priority list and will work with county council to re-establish it. Council members agreed outreach to students and partnering with the county and career-center programming are plausible near-term steps.
No formal recruitment program or funding was approved during the meeting; discussion concluded with direction to pursue coordination and further planning.
