https://www.nepm.org/regional-news/2024-07-10/amherst-interim-fire-chief-responds-to-union-concerns-over-staffing
fire trucks and ambulances are cross staffed Stromgren added that the fire department does have a "robust" mutual aid system in place with neighboring town's fire departments when they are short handed like they were on July 1st for assistance. Besides this mutual aid system Stromgren said the Amherst Fire Department also claims they have been relying more on a student volunteer force from all three colleges, Hampshire, Amherst, and University of Massachusetts when the academic year is in session. When full-time crews are occupied with calls, the volunteers join the regulars with assisting calls on the UMass campus. However, the volunteers are limited to only responding to basic fire and first aid calls and very few of them receive EMT training. (are any of the college mtnce staff on the FD? seems like they would be a tremendous oncall resource) -- shes got a kid ... together - https://youtu.be/IQQ-hxIwm70?si=8jrwZRcfZg-vN4Ye&t=237 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "massfire" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/massfire/CAFXWwKZg7X7h8mBFjkdD8%3DygygS1Y%3DxUB3sJyHwnJ8bEU-RRrQ%40mail.gmail.com.
