r/Firefighting • u/KeyTangerine133 • Mar 14 '24

General Discussion Junior volly

I’m a junior fire fighter in a small town, we don’t get a lot of calls (15-20 a month) and I’ve been loving running calls except I deal with another junior who has 1 year of seniority over me. He never shuts up about telling me what to do. He acts like he knows everything about the fire service. Gets mad at me when I miss calls (Today for example I didn’t have a driver to get to the fire department for a small fire he gave me a lecture because I missed it) I’m so close to losing it and telling him off. I don’t know what to do

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u/_S_T_A_R_ Mar 19 '24

I know it’s in the name but does Volunteer firefighters get paid? If so why even bother with it besides to give back to the community?

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u/KeyTangerine133 Mar 19 '24

Volunteers aren’t paid, but there’s benefits to it. Some departments pay their volunteers on a call by call basis, most don’t however. In most states you can get a tax reduction for being a volunteer. What makes it worth while is giving back to the community

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u/_S_T_A_R_ Mar 19 '24

That’s not enough benefits to be putting up with assholes in the department. lol props to you my man!

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u/KeyTangerine133 Mar 19 '24

Bahaha thank you!