Ideas for Recruiting and Retaining Volunteers with Candice McDonald
Sometimes, it seems like people just don’t have the time to be a volunteer firefighter anymore. It’s getting harder to find people to volunteer and even more difficult to keep […]
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Volunteers: Recruiting and Keeping Them with NVFC Chairman Kevin Quinn
With the vast majority of US firefighters being unpaid volunteers, it’s unsettling to realize that fewer men and women are volunteering these days. It’s a challenge. There are hours, even […]
Recruiting Female Firefighters: Capt. Reda Bigler, Phoenix Ariz Fire Dept.
The Phoenix Fire Department has about 1,900 employees, but just four percent of its firefighters are women. They’d like to change that. In this week’s podcast, Captain Reda Bigler tells […]
Finding volunteers: Chief Robert Rielage, Wyoming, Ohio Fire (Ret.)
If you run a volunteer fire department or a combination career-volunteer department, you’ve undoubtedly noticed that it’s been getting tougher over the years to find and recruit qualified volunteers. With […]