Part time ems and firefighters

[ThomasSmith]

Hello:

We are currently researching the idea of hiring some part-time personnel to operate our ems ambulance, these emt's paramedics will also cover the fire side when needed. We would apprciate any advice, suggestions, pros or cons concerning this matter from other departments that have instituted this type of set up or have previously investigated such endeavor.

A/Chief
Thomas Smith
City of Benwood
Volunteer Fire Dept.

[FiremedicMike]

A lot of volunteer fire depts in this area hire part-timers to run a "day crew". These guys work between normal business hours when its difficult to get volunteers to respond due to it being durin the work day.

I personally can't give any cons, the pro's obviously being you now have a day crew to take runs.

[Weruj1]

are you hiring form wihtin your ranks ? are they a mix of each ? how busy are you as a department ? what do you have in mind for duties ? who would supervise them ? I need a little more info please.......