Lawrence Township fire study recommendations include recruitment, youth academy efforts
Lawrence Township fire study recommendations include recruitment, youth academy efforts ×
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Creating a combination volunteer/career fire department with a full-time career chief in place of the three volunteer fire companies, each with its own fire chief.
Setting up a formal volunteer recruitment program and coming up with measures to encourage the volunteer firefighters to stay involved.
Establishing a one-week-long youth fire academy – similar to youth police academies – to pique children’s interest in becoming volunteer firefighters.
Those are among the 38 recommendations outlined in a 171-page report prepared by The Rodgers Group consulting firm. Lawrence Township officials commissioned the study to get a better sense of the township’s fire operations and how to improve them.