I was a volunteer firefighter in the 1970's in The Netherlands. First my employer was a bit difficult when I had to leave because there was an incident where firefigters were needed. I asked them to contact their fire insurance and tell them the problem. The insurance reacted and gave them a certain bonus on the insurance premium for every volunteer firefighter they employed.
My dad used to have to leave in the middle of work or the middle of the night. Hearing him get up at four am for calls became normal. I used to help get him his gear if his pager woke me up when I was a kid.
The amount of calls i missed because my work wouldn't let me leave, like sometimes I get it I'm the only one here but if there's someone else there with me I should be able to go
This is what we do here in my small town here in Australia I live in a small town of only 600 people with 3 silver mines just out side of town there is one person at the station at all times so that they can pick up the crew on their way to a fire as you can hear the fire siren almost as far away as 2 km from the station. This is the best option for everyone cuts down on cost, I have lived here for 11 years and only heard the siren go of a dozen times in all that time. Most of the forest are related to scrub fires only 2 house fires in the past 11 years
When i was in high school we got excused from class if we got a fire run. We have had structure fires in the early morning hours and the chief or assistant chief would call the school to get us excused. One time after school we had 2 fires come in at about the same time and had only one senior fire fighter and he had just turned 18. He took a pumper with another cadet for a car fire and my brother, another cadet and me took a couple Indian water packs and some brooms and drove our car to a grass fire. I got more where that came from. Talk amongst yourselves.
I have been helped by volunteer firefighters. To them and to you I say thank you so very much. None of you are told enough how much you are needed and appreciated. Thank you.
Standard in any smal town in New Zealand, siren goes off people go running. NZ Fire Service has just introduced a sticker fi\or the windows of businesses who support volunteers.
Yeah, in Germany this is required by law as well, the business has to let the firefighter go. With some exceptions, if the job is already a state service or too important, it doesn´t have to be the case. For example, a professional doctor in a hospital who is also a firefighter doesn´t have to respond to the firefighting emergency. Same for a baker if his oven is running with all the bread inside. The business can apply a form and will get paid for the loss by the state. Because they still have to pay their worker, even if he is on his firefighting duty.
I'm pretty sure it's actually against the law in some states do dock firefighters' pay or absence records if they are or were in the performance of their duties.
Theres no way that’s accurate, my department has roughly the same population and we get anywhere from 350-450 a year, unless they don’t respond to med calls or something
@@ColKlenk-id1yu this could very well be accurate, the volunteer department I am with is very similar with one station and three units running about 120 calls a year, we have many small seperate departments very close together (less than 2 miles in a rural area) which helps us have excellent response times for volunteers... We then have EMS stations that run about 700 calls a year, so the only medical calls the fire departments respond to are cardiac arrest. We also run from our local businesses.
I was a volunteer firefighter in Kentucky, although I didn’t have a job at the time I was on the fire department I was available to respond to the station and earn some money for the number of fire runs turned into our county fire alarm office
This isn’t anything new. I’m from a small town in Wyoming, when the Fire Sirens would go off, most of the faculty at any of the schools, or congregations of churches would go get in their vehicles turn on their blue lights and flashing headlights and go.
Most volunteer fire department members around the country get paid per call and for training as well as mileage reimbursements. Some states even offer some sort of pension based on years served.
I'm a volunteer firefighter in New Jersey. We have a similar set up for our staff (although I am not one of them). This may be the way of the future. A small city like Evansville will not want to jack up taxes by employing a full time paid department. This is even more so, because so many alarms are for automatic fire alarm systems.
Yeah that's what I want to know when I'm volunteer firefighter if my job will let me use my pager during work and leave to respond to calls and help with someone in my job because I work at ingles in Carrollton Georgia and I dont know if they would let me leave to go to call or assist my brother and sister with a employee or customer when I'm working when i do become volunteer firefighter
Yeah, I'd agree with Pete W. You gotta work it out with your direct supervisor. I shouldn't say this but they may be hesitant to say no to you, because you are providing a free service to the community. Just make sure you ask, rather than just take off & assume.
Well must be one of a very small number of places around the world that care to let staff leave their full time work... That's a luxury that most do not have... But in the real world Employer's don't care about what you do as it impacts the business... So fire services around the world are struggling to crew trucks. The saying goes "if it doesn't affect me it doesn't matter". Glad to see somewhere providing what the part time/volunteering fire service was all about in the beginning.
Of course you should be able to leave your workplace incase you are a volunteer firefighter and it is benificial to have a trained person at your workplace
My employer would let me leave but I would not get paid, hourly don't you know. I would like to get involved but too much government nonsense involved. Hours of training/studying a 500 page manual, all on my own time, what little amount I have to myself.
Volunteers are real firemen. If you don't belive me look at the german speaking countries where around 97% of fire fighters are volunteers and do just the same as paid fire fighters do.
That is a community that really cares about it first responders!
I APPLAUD EVANSVILLE FOR THEIR UNDERSTANDING OF THE NEED FOR THEIR VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS!!!!
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I was a volunteer firefighter in the 1970's in The Netherlands. First my employer was a bit difficult when I had to leave because there was an incident where firefigters were needed. I asked them to contact their fire insurance and tell them the problem. The insurance reacted and gave them a certain bonus on the insurance premium for every volunteer firefighter they employed.
Thanks for serving.
My dad used to have to leave in the middle of work or the middle of the night. Hearing him get up at four am for calls became normal. I used to help get him his gear if his pager woke me up when I was a kid.
The amount of calls i missed because my work wouldn't let me leave, like sometimes I get it I'm the only one here but if there's someone else there with me I should be able to go
This is what we do here in my small town here in Australia I live in a small town of only 600 people with 3 silver mines just out side of town there is one person at the station at all times so that they can pick up the crew on their way to a fire as you can hear the fire siren almost as far away as 2 km from the station. This is the best option for everyone cuts down on cost, I have lived here for 11 years and only heard the siren go of a dozen times in all that time. Most of the forest are related to scrub fires only 2 house fires in the past 11 years
When i was in high school we got excused from class if we got a fire run. We have had structure fires in the early morning hours and the chief or assistant chief would call the school to get us excused. One time after school we had 2 fires come in at about the same time and had only one senior fire fighter and he had just turned 18. He took a pumper with another cadet for a car fire and my brother, another cadet and me took a couple Indian water packs and some brooms and drove our car to a grass fire. I got more where that came from. Talk amongst yourselves.
I have been helped by volunteer firefighters. To them and to you I say thank you so very much. None of you are told enough how much you are needed and appreciated. Thank you.
I can remember being able to leave high school for fire calls. Man those were the good old days
Standard in any smal town in New Zealand, siren goes off people go running. NZ Fire Service has just introduced a sticker fi\or the windows of businesses who support volunteers.
That should be a law.
In my state this is the law
Leroy Jenkins which state ?
Leroy Jenkins same for us
it should be everywhere but sadly I'm sure its not.
Yeah, in Germany this is required by law as well, the business has to let the firefighter go. With some exceptions, if the job is already a state service or too important, it doesn´t have to be the case. For example, a professional doctor in a hospital who is also a firefighter doesn´t have to respond to the firefighting emergency. Same for a baker if his oven is running with all the bread inside.
The business can apply a form and will get paid for the loss by the state. Because they still have to pay their worker, even if he is on his firefighting duty.
I'm pretty sure it's actually against the law in some states do dock firefighters' pay or absence records if they are or were in the performance of their duties.
150 calls in total per year is such a small number of calls
Theres no way that’s accurate, my department has roughly the same population and we get anywhere from 350-450 a year, unless they don’t respond to med calls or something
It wouldn't be a small number of calls if one was for YOUR house or YOUR family member.
@@ColKlenk-id1yu this could very well be accurate, the volunteer department I am with is very similar with one station and three units running about 120 calls a year, we have many small seperate departments very close together (less than 2 miles in a rural area) which helps us have excellent response times for volunteers... We then have EMS stations that run about 700 calls a year, so the only medical calls the fire departments respond to are cardiac arrest. We also run from our local businesses.
I spent almost 30 years as a Volunteer Emergency Service Officer and My Employers always Understood to Release Me when I had an Emergency.
I was a volunteer firefighter in Kentucky, although I didn’t have a job at the time I was on the fire department I was available to respond to the station and earn some money for the number of fire runs turned into our county fire alarm office
I never had this issue. I just told the boss i was going. When he complained, i just told him he can find another employee if he didn't like it.
Depending on the job, he may find another employee.
This isn’t anything new. I’m from a small town in Wyoming, when the Fire Sirens would go off, most of the faculty at any of the schools, or congregations of churches would go get in their vehicles turn on their blue lights and flashing headlights and go.
Most volunteer fire department members around the country get paid per call and for training as well as mileage reimbursements. Some states even offer some sort of pension based on years served.
I'm a volunteer firefighter in New Jersey. We have a similar set up for our staff (although I am not one of them). This may be the way of the future. A small city like Evansville will not want to jack up taxes by employing a full time paid department. This is even more so, because so many alarms are for automatic fire alarm systems.
This is how all fire departments are here in Sask, unless full staffed.
Yeah that's what I want to know when I'm volunteer firefighter if my job will let me use my pager during work and leave to respond to calls and help with someone in my job because I work at ingles in Carrollton Georgia and I dont know if they would let me leave to go to call or assist my brother and sister with a employee or customer when I'm working when i do become volunteer firefighter
Yeah, I'd agree with Pete W. You gotta work it out with your direct supervisor. I shouldn't say this but they may be hesitant to say no to you, because you are providing a free service to the community. Just make sure you ask, rather than just take off & assume.
Well must be one of a very small number of places around the world that care to let staff leave their full time work... That's a luxury that most do not have... But in the real world Employer's don't care about what you do as it impacts the business...
So fire services around the world are struggling to crew trucks.
The saying goes "if it doesn't affect me it doesn't matter".
Glad to see somewhere providing what the part time/volunteering fire service was all about in the beginning.
I thought they already did that.
Lol this isnt mandatory? greetings from Germany....
Of course you should be able to leave your workplace incase you are a volunteer firefighter and it is benificial to have a trained person at your workplace
Maybe the rest of the country and employers will get it
My employer would let me leave but I would not get paid, hourly don't you know. I would like to get involved but too much government nonsense involved. Hours of training/studying a 500 page manual, all on my own time, what little amount I have to myself.
In Germany its law.
In Germany, are volunteer fire departments common? I understand that in most of Europe, they are not common at all.
@@Mark152093 Around 97% percent are Volunteers. Disaster Relief is also mostly Volunteer. Switzerland and Austria have similar numbers
This is how it originally was all over america. Until business owner got cheap
No, it was like that until we got over regulated
Why can't the city afford real firemen?
Volunteers are real firemen. If you don't belive me look at the german speaking countries where around 97% of fire fighters are volunteers and do just the same as paid fire fighters do.