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The Central Square Fire Company is a Volunteer/Call Company. Interested personnel shall fill out an application, which can be obtained at this website or
at the Central Square Fire Station. A letter of interest is also suggested but not required. Once received, the application will be reviewed by the Chief
of the company, other officers and Company Members. You will then be contacted to acknowledge your application and for further instructions on what will
be needed next. Please note the company has a maximum number of members, we only take on members as needed. Your application may be put on file and you
will be contacted when the need arises.
REQUIREMENTS
You must be at least 18 years of age, out of High School, must live within the boundaries of Central Square and be in good physical health. You will be
required to take all mandated training starting out with Firefighter 1. After acceptance into the Company, you will be required to make monthly drills
and meetings. In addition, on occasion you will need to take a certain specific class at the NY State Fire Academy. Preferred qualifications include:
EMT Certification, valid drivers license, prior experience. However, raw boots are accepted. Daytime personnel are needed the most.
THE EXPERIENCE
If you are still interested in being a Volunteer Firefighter, you need to know what you are getting into. Once you go through your initial firefighting
classes, you become a probationary member. You will be on probation for a period of up to but not to exceed one year. During this time, you will be allowed
to respond to calls. You may at times have to stand back and let more qualified personnel respond. This is for your safety as well as the responding
members and has no baring on you as a person - please don't get your feelings hurt. While on that subject, you must have thick skin and be able to follow
orders while on call. If you freelance or fail to obey orders, it could cost a life.
Now for what you have been wanting to hear about; You will respond to calls in the early morning hours, wear 30 to 50 pounds of protective equipment on you back,
roll lots of hose, run into burning buildings that everyone else is running out of, rescue the baby on the 3rd floor, fall through the floor into a 200
degree room, cleaning up the mess then get ready to do it all over again - "You're A Firefighter... Get Used To It"! That's just the tip of it. There are
hours of practice and classes to attend. All forms of work parties, parades to march in and don't forget the 500+ calls per year we respond to.
Types of calls you may deal with are "Anything And Everything" and will include vehicle fires, building fires, motor vehicle accidents, extrication, patient
care, water rescues, confined space rescues, medical calls, hazardous material calls, fuel spills, train wrecks, forest/brush fires, recovery missions and more.
THE EXAMPLE NIGHT
(This is fiction and not the typical night, "But this does happen")
You worked all day, get home at 5:15pm. Supper is on the table at 5:45 and you are ready to eat. At 5:46 a call comes in for a fire alarm activation at the
high school. You respond, get to the station and are cancelled. It is now 6:15 and you are back home and ready to dive into supper that now needs to be
microwaved. At 6:21 an ambulance call comes in, you decide not to go. At 6:40 a second medical call comes in, you respond. You arrive back home at 7:20. You
say the hell with dinner and get ready to watch your favorite TV show. At 9:25 a call comes in for a fuel spill at the Quick Fill. You get ready to go but
the crew still at the station responds and you stay home. At 10:00 you decide to get some sleep. At 12:45 AM, a call comes in for a structure fire. While
enroute to the station you hear a Chief report "FLAMES SHOWING". You arrive at the station, the first engine is gone, you will be on the second piece to
leave. Your job will be water supply and ventilation. At 3:00 AM, the fire is declared out and you pick up your hose and equipment. It's now 4:00 AM and
you are ready to go back home because you have to get ready for work at 6:00 AM. Welcome to the world of a volunteer firefighter!
If after all of that you would still like to serve the community as a Central Square Firefighter/EMS volunteer,
contact ??? by mail, phone or stopping by the fire station:
Central Square Fire Company #1, Inc.
Attention: ???
PO Box 92
687 Main Street
Central Square, NY 13036
Phone: (315) 668-6555
Whichever means of communication you decide to use, please be sure you ask that the
information you supply is directed to ???.
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