It appears that almost every fire department in Carbon County supports a proposed county training facility. I certainly support fire fighters being trained, but I must ask–isn’t this the kind of thing that could be done regionally? Do Monroe and Schuylkill Counties have facilities to train fire fighters? Could Carbon County firefighters train there? Would that be cheaper than setting up a Carbon County facility?
Perhaps this has already been investigated. If not, it should be. I think we have way too many local governments in Pennsylvania with way too many separate facilities that could be combined to save taxpayers’ dollars.
I believe this is a smart decision. First off our fire fighters are all volunteers And we need to make things easier for them to do there training. They all work full time jobs and do not have that much extra time to travel any distances. Besides they have to full fulfill a lot of training hours every year. I think its somewhere around 150+ hrs.
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