Leadership

Lack of Vol. Staff, Pa. Dept. Mulls Paid Positions

Oct. 20, 2011

-- Oct. 19--The West Ridge Volunteer Fire Department could make history in Millcreek Township with a first for that community -- a paid firefighting staff. The 65-member department is strongly considering a small, paid staff that would work from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., Mondays through Fridays, when the service is stretched thin due to volunteers' job commitments.

Source Erie Times-News, Pa.

Oct. 19--The West Ridge Volunteer Fire Department could make history in Millcreek Township with a first for that community -- a paid firefighting staff.

The 65-member department is strongly considering a small, paid staff that would work from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., Mondays through Fridays, when the service is stretched thin due to volunteers' job commitments.

Millcreek Supervisor Joseph Kujawa dropped the news in an unlikely place, during a luncheon meeting Wednesday of the Erie Council of Republican Women at the Erie Maennerchor Club.

Millcreek's volunteer fire departments, and others across the region, have struggled with staffing due to either dwindling volunteers or firefighters with jobs, family and other commitments.

See Thursday's Erie Times-News and GoErie.com for more coverage.