Training Notebook: creative funding for your department's dream project

摘要

Do you have some project or goal that is not being accomplished because there are not enough funds to go around? Is there some dream that would put your fire department on the map and give it the professional recognition it deserves in your community? Our dream and goal was to have some type of drill field for our 51-member career department, located in a 22-square-mile city with a population of 35,600 and three fire stations. The nearest drill field was 14.8 miles away, and the only way to get training at that field was to take an engine company out of service, which was not feasible from a budgetary standpoint. Moreover, the quality of service to our citizens would have suffered.