Recruiting

The summer is approaching when all stations will get a bit busier, crews will also be going away on holidays. This leads to an obvious shortage of fire-fighter “bums on seats”. We were hopeful that by July the station would have had 3 new recruits, unfortunately none passed the extended recruitment proceedure. Is it that we are attracting the wrong people or is the process wrong? How many established, competent, long serving station members would have managed the process or even bothered to apply?