Big News

Congratulations to Cam Norris-Jones. With the approval of the budget at council on Monday night, the fifth firefighter position is official. This is great news for the department. Not only does it provide us with another firefighter during the critical day time part of the day when most of the volunteers are out working, it will allow us to provide additional training time on weekends, more opportunities to get out in the public and provide fire and life safety education programs and more opportunities to get those inspections done. It also takes a load off the officers shoulders as they now only have to worry about the night portion of the duty shift as the day time hours will be covered by the paid crew. So, on July 5th, we will be switching to 7 day a week coverage, with crews rotating an 11 hour shift doing a 4 day on, 4 day off rotation. Hopefully this is the start of many great new things to come for the department.