So you want to be a firefighter? Check out our requirements and give us a call:

To join our department, the first thing we ask is that you come to our regular tuesday night meetings to demonstrate your interest in our Organization. You must then complete the Level One Firefighters Course which is a certified course approved by the New Brunswick Community College. The course is 90 hours (15 hours of standard First Aid and 75 hours of theory) from the IFSTA Third Edition manual. The community college will give you an exam at the end of the course and a mark of 60% or more makes you a level one firefighter in New Brunswick.

We will then outfit the firefighter with the bunker gear and begin in-house training. Our training is every Tuesday night starting at 7pm to 9pm. The first Tuesday of the month is set aside for equipment testing. This gives us a chance to check and test all our equipment and an opportunity for the new firefighters to try the equipment and get used to where the equipment is stored in the trucks. The last Tuesday of the month is set aside for our association meeting to discuss the firefighters' concerns. The other Tuesdays are used for actual training, either outdoors or inside. We try to cover as many chapters of the IFSTA Manual as possible and do any other training that the firefighters would like to improve on.

We try and watch the new firefighters to find out what they like to do and what they're timid on doing...We don't want anyone doing anything they aren't comfortable with. We have a saying in our department: "There is always something for everyone to do at a fire scene". We would rather find out during training that you don't like to climb ladders than find out at an actual fire scene. You tell us what you don't like doing and we'll find you something you'll like to do.

You have the opportunity to join several groups in our fire department: Air Packs, Pumper Operators, Ground Firefighter, Jaws Team Or All Of The Above. It depends on the firefighter and how much time he wants to put into the department. To become a pump operator, you must be able to drive a truck but most important of all, you must be able to operate the pump on the truck. It would be your job to get water and control the flow of water to other firefighters. The Ground Firefighters are the backbone to the department. They work on the outside of the fire scene making sure everyone else is safe and has everything they need.

The Air-Pak Firefighters are an elite group of firefighters. They are well trained and work very well together. They depend on the Pump Operator, the Ground Team and the Command Chiefs, but most of all, they rely on each other. They know the risks of putting on the air packs but seem to thrive on the risk and doing a good job. When you climb into the back of the rescue van, you always look for these guys and hope to see at least four of them.

Most importantly, if you don't have a good commander to hold things together then all those other guys would look pretty ordinary. Our department has one of the best command combinations in the Mutual Aid of all the departments. We take control of the situation from start to finish. Our department is known for going into a situation and taking control. This is attributed to our being well trained and we have a great group of firefighters. We don't have to play second fiddle to any department.

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