Are you at your forever department?

[u/iheartMGs]

EDIT: I really appreciate all the feedback from everyone! Pretty cool to hear all the different responses! Stay safe brothers/sisters and wish everyone the best of luck throughout your careers!

Title says it all. Curious how many members have found their forever depts and why you made it your home for the rest of your career. The culture at my department is simply amazing. The chiefs know every member by first name and your put into a leadership role pretty early on if you’ve earned the trust of the officers. They will send you to virtually any training, deploy you across the nation, etc. Let’s hear what you have.

[u/trapper2530]

But also more chances for fires more chances for promotion. You get hurt more chances for lighter duty jobs. More chances to go to.a slower house if thats what you need. Bad crew or officer more chances to go somewhere else. No small town politics of dealing with chiefs son or nephew being favored. Or it has less effect. Benefits yo both types of dept

[u/iheartMGs → u/trapper2530]

That’s true, options are most definitely our friends.

[u/trapper2530 → u/iheartMGs]

We definitely have bug problems here. But I hear friends working at small dept. They'll run 10 fires the whole dept all 3 shifts a year. While my engine itself ran 30 and the truck did close to 60. We have a truck that ran 140 fire last year and others 100+. Some engines doing 70+. We also have some companies that did 3 fires. And ran 900 runs the whole year.

[u/iheartMGs → u/trapper2530]

That’s crazy work, but awesome that they get that many jobs a year.

[u/trapper2530 → u/iheartMGs]

They run their ass off though. Close to 6000 runs a year just the truck.

[u/iheartMGs → u/trapper2530]

😬😬

[u/trapper2530 → u/iheartMGs]

The fires though.

[u/iheartMGs → u/trapper2530]

I bet, wish we got that many.