The City of Terrace has announced its plans to expand the roster of serving firefighters in that community, issuing a Call for interest for those considering service as a paid on call volunteer for hybrid department that serves the Skeena Valley community.
The recruiting drive gets underway with the initial call for paid volunteers coming by way of social media.
Terrace has a mixed professional/volunteer service, it last listed 10 full time firefighters and up to 30 volunteer members in service for the city.
Though there are plans for a slight increase to the number of full time members.
The difference between the Career firefighters and those paid volunteers, is that for the volunteer component to be paid for those fire calls that they are called for, as well as any training sessions.
The full background to the Terrace program is available for review here.
The Terrace approach to fire fighting is significantly different than that found in Prince Rupert, with this community using a completely professional component for the First Avenue Fire Hall.
The staffing includes Fire Chief, 1 Deputy Chief, 4 shift Captains and 20 career Firefighters. The City of Prince Rupert also operates an Emergency Dispatch offie out of the Fire Hall.
The Fire Service accounts for an important element of the Civic Budget each year, last year saw the city spending over 3 million dollars in salaries and expenses alone towards the PRFD membership.
The differences between the two fire services made for some discussion at Prince Rupert City Council last November.
Though the option to explore a similar service component for Prince Rupert is not a theme that this current council collective; or those Council's previous to it have had munch interest in.
More notes on the work of Emergency Responders across the region is available here.
Cross posted from the North Coast Review.
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