Chief Reid Vaughan: ‘If you can fog a mirror, I’ll find you a job’
“There’s a job for everybody” at the volunteer fire department. That’s Chief Reid Vaughan’s perspective on recruitment. Cuba, Alabama, where Vaughan serves as fire chief, doesn’t have a lot of financial support, meaning officials have to get creative about how to best serve the community. Vaughan shares volunteer recruitment strategies plus smart ways to do more with less. We dig into all this plus:
Mutual-aid relationships that make a big difference
Hybrid education programs that fit volunteers’ schedules
Homegrown systems for communicating with the public
How to highlight the realities of…
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