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Interested in volunteering your time and services to your community? The fire department is an excellent place to do so.
If you are interested in joining our department, you first need to come to one of our weekly fire meetings and meet us. Generally fire meetings are held each Tuesday at 7:00PM and alternate locations between Coleridge and Erect fire departments each week. Click the calendar link at the top of the page to find out when and where the meeting will be held that you plan to attend. The requirements to join is as follows:
- Junior Firefighter - To join the department as a junior firefighter, you must be at least 16 years old, have a valid drivers license, be currently enrolled in high school, and live within the Coleridge-Erect Fire District. Junior firefighters are somewhat limited as to their role in the fire department. These restrictions have been implemented with the safety of our junior members in mind. For example, a junior firefighter will not be allowed to enter a burning structure, drive emergency apparatus, respond to calls emergency traffic, etc. Junior firefighters can be promoted to Firefighter when they meet the requirments below.
- Firefighter - To join the department as a firefighter, one must be at least 18 years old, have a high school diploma, have a valid drivers licens e, and live within the Coleridge-Erect Fire Department district.
When you come to your first fire meeting and express your interest in joining, you will be given an application. You must fill out the required information and return the application to an officer of the department. In addition to attending 4 meetings, you will also meet with our Screening Committee, which is made up of 4 officers from the department. The committee will simply ask you questions to get to know you better, and then offer a recommendation to the department on your behalf. The final decision to make you a member of the department will be by a vote cast from the current members of the department.
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