Congratulations to the members of FASNY’s Recruitment and Retention Committee for being proactive and planning a statewide recruitment effort for April 9 and 10, 2011.
They’re promoting the simple concept of each volunteer fire department hosting an open house that weekend and have backed it up with the marketing and planning tools to make your local efforts successful.
From sample press releases to web banners and everything in between, they’ve thought of it all and posted it to a single resource center at www.recruitny.org. I know we’ll be promoting it and encouraging FD participation in our county and I hope you will too, even if you don’t live in New York.
Check out the site and the resources and get ready to open your firehouse to hopefully what is a long line of prospective members of your volunteer fire department.
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Yo Tiger, so anyway, Chief, I authored the feature article in this months issue of the Volunteer Firefighter as well as the photographs. ABC forgot to give any credits on the story however. What’d ya think of it? Did you like my fishing twist? LOL
Nicely done Gordo -
Great article and great program in RecruitNY.org. I know we’ll be encouraging our departments to take advantage of the statewide awareness.
Keep up the great work.
Stay safe. Train often.
PS – You had me hook-line-and-sinker with that fishing reference!