Fire departments continue to face recruitment issues

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MONTICELLO – Volunteer fire departments around the state continue to face problems of recruiting and retaining firefighters.

In Sullivan County, a survey of all departments has been completed and County Fire Coordinator John Hauschild said the results should lead to more recruits.

“We are going to try to put a task force together to do countywide recruitment for fire and we are also going to include EMS in that,” he said.

The difficulty in recruitment is often the factor of people’s personal lives having to juggle work and family commitments.




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