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Sunday, May 14, 2006

Firefighter Exchange

If you "Google" the term "firefighter exchange" you will come up to several links related to a program much like a foreign exchange student in high school. There is an International Firefighter Fellowship which is based in Australia and provides for Firefighters from Down-Under swap job and housing with another firefighter across the seas for a year. This allows the firefighters to learn different aspects of the job from a different perspective all while keeping their job at home.

The City of Toronto Fire Department has a similar firefighter exchange program.

Has anyone out there known a firefighter who has participated in a program like this. I would like to know more about it.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

A few years ago, several Roanoke firefighters went to New York to teach them how to fight fire.

Anonymous said...

nobody wants to swap with you rhett

FireFleitz said...

I was thinking that maybe I could exchange with someone from Ladder 1 or wherever. Just for a year.

Anonymous said...

Also, some of our finests went to Kentland, MD to mentor them in the arts of firefighting and to foster goodwill. We will forever to grateful to them for that.