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Danteh, I served, as a firefighter at Greenwood, Shearwater and Borden prior to getting out. Different bases had different ideas about the 24 hour shift, some places only needed one day leave because your work day is 24 hours. This is the answer we had back in Shearwater when we looked at going...

One thing to remember is that many halls you have to come in on days off for certain things such as dental appointments, range qualifications, even some trade required training (such as first aid etc). We are required to have a certain level of manning and if we are over they maybe able to cover...

I retired from the fire trade last year. I know there were some changes they were working on. The basic fire fighter course is around 7 months long. Once you start training the only breaks are for summer block leave or Christmas block leave depending on when your course starts. I know before...

I believe the name will be released very soon. Its starting to make its rounds on Facebook but don't want to say who it is yet. But I believe I put him through his 3's course. RIP. You were one of the good ones.

Sorry, wrong information.

I retired 1 Oct and just received my pension mid December. I haven't heard anything about my severance pay yet (I didn't take anything before). My service was pretty simple 23 years reg force and maybe a year reserves, many many years ago. My only hiccup was I filled out all the forms the...

I just released on the first of October. I was on the old plan and then took my IPS. Shortly after releasing, probably the beginning of November, I received an email from the pension office asking if I wanted to take my pension as a monthly payment, role it into a new pension, or defer it until...

I released in Sept with my final day after retirement leave the 1st of Oct. I was told the severance pay would be sometime in January (maybe). I had not taken anything before as PIL. As far as my pension I haven't received anything yet and someone who released a week before was told his would be...

The first female SAR Tech graduated in 1998, I believe, she just recently retired. There is also at least one other that I'm aware of. I also believe that they would not graduate people for the sake of numbers.

I'm not sure who makes the boots. They are not swat boots. Our station boots don't have a NSN on them, we wear them with our nomex uniforms. Our "blue uniforms" are our dress uniform and we wear regular CF issued drill boots then. I just looked at the boots, there are no brand names on them or...

When a new QL3 gets to a hall, he has approximately 18 months to finish his OJT package. It can be done quicker then that, they are allotted 18 months. It should take them that long, anything less than that and you can see it in the students when they move on to their 5's course. We are probably...

They do have to sign that prior to going on their 5's course. I'll leave it to your imagination on how this is working in the trade. Although I will say that some of the people at first that were dead set against signing it seemed to have a change of heart and are signing it now an going on...

Most fire halls work a form of 4 shifts. Its a 4 days/6 off 4 nights/4 off 3 days/3 nights 4 off. So starting on a Monday you would work days Monday to Thursday, off until the following Thursday work 4 nights off Monday morning, back to work Friday work days until Sunday, then Monday to...

The trade does have some issues. Part of it is people leaving for civvy departments. Some of it is the trade has a large number of members who have over 20 years of service and could leave shortly. The trade does not have a problem attracting people, it has a problem keeping experienced members...

We have one base that has a mixture of Civilian (DND) and military, that would be Edmonton. All other bases that have firefighters on base are either DND or Military. I'm not sure if Edmonton is staying that way, I have heard rumours that it may be changing to all military. The DND were added to...

I know as of last summer you could get the half of the posting allowance. If you have plans on moving your family at a later date you can ask for this to be put aside until the family moves up and receive the whole posting allowance at that time. As far as furniture rentals from what I was told...

According the the CANAIRGEN the new air force fleece is authorized for wearing to/from work, on the flight line, but because it is flammable is not authorized to be worn in aircraft. That's as I remember reading the reg. I could be wrong.

Where the fire fighter trade is having a problem is in the senior ranks. We are short on those that require the 6A course.  We have a ton of QL3 and QL4 pers. Where we start losing them is after they complete their 5's. Many will take the 5's course and then when they get their first posting...

That was the reason we decided to do the IR process this year. My daughter is looking at various universities (including RMC) and my wife and I would do anything to help her. I know this is a personal decision and it was one that we took after much discussion, including my daughter saying that...

Yes, my family's intention is to move next year after she finishes high school.