guidelines

[Nozzleman01]

hey all...

myself and my fire department are looking into starting a jrs program but we need some guide lines to help us get it going....


thanks

nozz

[FFbeaumont]

SSIfire is the a good guy to talk to, put his name in the search field and I think there might be a few good threads on this. I was able to work with him for a few years on a cadet program when I was with my old Department.

[ndvfd_ff33]

When I was a Junior with my old dept my guidelines were pretty easy. No riding first due truck, no medicals, no operating rescue tools at an MVC and the biggest one is no interior. During meetings any major discussions I could not vote, with the exception of electing Chiefs. We had to be out of the hall by 2300 hrs unless of course we were there for a call.

Hopefully this can help you get started a bit and I'm sure others will have things to add.

[firefighter26]

SSIfire is the a good guy to talk to, put his name in the search field and I think there might be a few good threads on this. I was able to work with him for a few years on a cadet program when I was with my old Department.

Looks like Sooke will be getting onboard with Saltspring's program during spring break 2008 (if I remember correctly, a group of the cadets might be staying at our station while they go to the live fire compound in otterpoint).

It sounds like an awsome program; I've got my name on the list to help ou when the time comes.

[nolcor]

i could probebly post a copy of our guidelines for our dept here

[nolcor]

nvm, what we do here is the only restrictions are:

No entering burning buildings, or being placed in any other hazardous situation

Regular members have seat priority over juniors on the trucks

Juniors are not allowed a hall key (which is rediculous, ive had many times where ive needed to get in for one reason or another, alot of those being fire calls n i havent been able to because everyone forgot their key)

theres probebly more, but id have to look the paper up

[irsqyu]

No entering burning buildings, or being placed in any other hazardous situation

Sorry you shouldn't even be within the taped off hot zone at a call. Are you fully trained in the use of SCBA and do you have one available to you at a scene. You should not be in any seat on a truck where you displace a crewmember. What if you are on the truck and you pull up to an MVA on the highway with hazardous materials involved. You had better be trained in the use of SCBA, have on full PPE and have a SCBA at your disposal.


Basically if you are on the truck you could be placed in a "hazardous situation" ( your words) at any time. This topic has also been discussed many many times before.

CO-OP students are a different story, most have had a number of weeks of basic college training including SCBA use before riding on department vehicles.
As a Captain, I will not allow anyone one my truck unless they are trained in the proper use of all PPE and there is one at their disposal on the truck.......
Not even as an observer!

[DylanDoane]

Well at the Lantz Volunter Fire Depatmant In Halifax Nova Scotia us Jr.s are not alowed on the truck until we have our level one firefighting and all of our jr.s are scba trained and i got trained scba by my dad and he is a teacher at the Nsfs (nova scotia firefighting school) but that is the rule no jr.s on the trucks unless were going to training if there is anough room on the truck

[Nagrom]

I am a junior in Nova Scotia. Our rules are pretty simple. No entering a burning building, no MVA's or no medical assitance calls. No key to the hall. School comes first (which is a good thing), so on school nights we are only alowed at the hall until 22:00. As for training, most of our juniors are getting level 1 training.
One more thing I can say- The guys and gals at my department have been great. There hasn't been any negativity towards juniors while I've been there, and everyone is willing to teach you as much as you want. Try to make your department this way towards juniors. I have only been there about a month, and going there the first time was a difficult step- make people who are probably going to be nervous feel welcome.
Nagrom

[nolcor]

Sorry you shouldn't even be within the taped off hot zone at a call. Are you fully trained in the use of SCBA and do you have one available to you at a scene. You should not be in any seat on a truck where you displace a crewmember. What if you are on the truck and you pull up to an MVA on the highway with hazardous materials involved. You had better be trained in the use of SCBA, have on full PPE and have a SCBA at your disposal.


Basically if you are on the truck you could be placed in a "hazardous situation" ( your words) at any time. This topic has also been discussed many many times before.

CO-OP students are a different story, most have had a number of weeks of basic college training including SCBA use before riding on department vehicles.
As a Captain, I will not allow anyone one my truck unless they are trained in the proper use of all PPE and there is one at their disposal on the truck.......
Not even as an observer!

Well yes i have the same and in some cases more training then the regular guys, and there is a stipulation that i give my seat to a regular member if the trucks full but we never get that many ppl at our hall, and i basically do the grunt work, so it frees the regulars to do what i cant. I spent 8 months training just like a new recruit, but i agree completely with what you said

[irsqyu]

Cool, keep up the good work and enjoy!!:)