Regardless of whether your career or volunteer, many Fire and EMS organizations are struggling to meet the demands of their citizens. The operational costs (mostly wages and benefits) for career departments are outpacing the increase of tax revenues, making it...
Welcome to XtremeFD.com, we are glad you stopped by. XtremeFD.com provides a central location for volunteer firefighters and EMT’s to discuss the issues of their profession on a local, regional, and national level. Our primary focus is on recruitment and retention...
This book will empower the volunteer fire service to move past discussing and onto resolving recruitment challenges by providing a 5-step process for designing a successful recruitment program. Hypothesis 1 – A majority of volunteer/POC fire departments do not...
The cost of running a fire department is going up – REALLY? This actually surprises some people. I hear it all of the time, “How can operating a volunteer fire department cost so much?” Well there are several parts to that answer but I can break into three general...
We begin serving at 7am and by 8:30am the line is out the door. It will stay that way until about 11:30am when things begin to slow. We serve until 1pm.
