TIVFD ~ Water Tending Auxiliary Members Needed
Sunday, June 21, 2015 at 8:41PM The TIVFD is looking for new volunteers for water tending duties during a fire/wildfire event. Applicants must have a good driving record and be able to safely drive a very large truck carrying a 1,000 gallon full water tank. No air brakes...just Class 5 license . You must also be capable of carrying a portable pump or other fire equipment up and down an embankment and work safely by water with minimum supervision.
We will train you for the water tending duties and you would be covered by WorkSafeBC when training or on a response. We hope never to have to use your skills, but if there is a large fire incident auxiliary members can take over non-frontline duties and thus free up firefighters for the hot zone. Water Tending is an extremely important facet of any fire response. We have two auxiliary members on the Water Tending Team (Sjoerd VanKleef and James Alton) but we need two more in case Sjoerd or James are not available when needed.
Write to chief11@telus.net if interested. Thanks!
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