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What if you negotiated an education article for your contract. Ask the city if they'll allow the firefighters off for education leave as long as minimum staffing is maintained. The firefighters can have off for education leave but if there ...
Yeah at the beginning of the year we do vacation picks by seniority. Then the days that aren't full, anyone can take time off. We get comp days. We don't have paid overtime, so we get a comp day(basically 24 hours) to take as a day off or we can s...
Mike is this seniority based for time off??
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For me it was Pride and Ownership. Lots of awesome ideas.
Have you read any good books or articles lately or discovered a web site that may benefit this community? Are you looking for information on a particular subject?
The department that I am on only allows 3 personnel off per shift for vacations, personal days, school, etc. If more than 3 call off, then a call back situation goes into affect so our staffing level stays the same. Most of the year, we have 3 peo...
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- Valparaiso Fire Department
- Title/rank:
- Firefighter/EMT
- Years of public service:
- 11
- Agency structure:
- Paid fire department
- Top issues in your department:
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Staffing
EMS
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- At 9:17pm on April 11, 2009,
Jim Mason said… - Thnaks for asking Mike. I've been busy with some family stuff in the last few weeks. Andy down there, told us no one was signing up for anything other than state certified or hot classes. They also had a conflict with a couple of other conferences that week so I guess there wasn't the interest. Maybe next year, times are tough. Take care
- At 9:37am on November 16, 2008,
Jim Mason said…
- Hey Mike when you get a chnace , take a look at the coordinated fire attack on CSF. I'd like your take on it
Jim
- At 2:27pm on November 8, 2008,
Jim Mason said…
- I'm a floating Lt. and I just had a fire on that company last saturday in the projects. I'm on furlough and it was not my shift so I dont know that much about the crash. I think evryone went to the hospital but I believe they are ok.
- At 5:13pm on November 3, 2008,
Jim Mason said…
- Hey Mike
Thanks for joining CSF (Common Sense Firefighting)
It's about decision making on the fire ground. Add your 2 cents like the rest of when ever you can.
I see we are almost neighbors
- At 11:13am on October 23, 2008,
Todd McKee said… - Please allow me to invite you to the group called Unique HazMat Incidents. I will be presenting this at 2009 FDIC and would love to hear some of your thoughts. We are currently talking about some real interesting issues.
Todd McKee
- At 5:55pm on October 14, 2008,
Dave Diehl said… - I was on here very early and just really havent told anyone
dave
- At 9:48pm on September 12, 2008,
IndianaFireNews-Brandon Roark said… - hey mike, after see you the other night I had a thought (despite what Erin says i have them quite often) we should get together for a "double date" in the near future.
- At 6:28pm on May 6, 2008,
Tom Fentress said… - Sure Do,
Our 12' Box is 22" X 22" inside height. I believe that the 10' box is the same height. The Roof Sim, is 10' X 10' it also turns into a platform, so that we can crawl under it. We also used peg board to drop wires through for intaglement situations. Anyways, if you want to see these just let me know.
- At 5:29pm on May 1, 2008,
Tom Fentress said…
- MIke,
We got alot of the wood donated from Kapers building materials after that it was simple. I would check there first, before you go dumpster diving.
- At 8:10pm on April 28, 2008,
Tom Fentress said…
- Hey Mike, Nice to see you on here. Hope everything is good in your neck of the woods.
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