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Recruiting Next Generations Volunteer. With the constant need for volunteers, how do you recruit the next generation to join a fire department? Increasing your marketing and recruitment efforts is a positive way to gain support of local people who are yearning to make a difference. Marketing is a cost-effective tool designed to increase public awareness and encourage support from the local community. Further, it helps fire departments develop comprehensive plans that support communication and recruitment efforts. The following tips have provided fire departments with the tools necessary to grow and strengthen their volunteer family.   Determine Your Target Audience The...

   Thanks to the German Army, the U.S. Marine Corps has an unofficial mascot.  During World War I many German reports had called the attacking Marines "teufel-hunden," meaning Devil-Dogs.  Teufel-hunden were the vicious, wild, and ferocious mountain dogs of Bavarian folklore.    Soon afterward a U.S. Marine recruiting poster depicted a snarling English Bulldog wearing a Marine Corps helmet.  Because of the tenacity and demeanor of the breed, the image took root with both the Marines and the public.  The Marines soon unofficially adopted the English Bulldog as their mascot.    At the Marine base at Quantico, Virginia, the...

10-CHP – California Highway Patrol – USA The California Highway Patrol (CHP) is a law enforcement agency of the U.S. state of California. The CHP is responsible to patrol all over California highways and also acts as the state police. The California Highway Patrol is the largest state police force in the United States, with more than 11,000 employees, 7,500 of whom are sworn officers. This police force is equipped with the latest fleet of motorcycles, cars and aircrafts. After the September 11, 2001 attacks the CHP became responsible for securing and patrolling a number of possible terrorist targets in...

An Article from the Los Angeles Times December 20th 1992, It still resonates with families today. SANTA ANA — It was the night before Christmas, but on Police Officer Don Blankenship's beat, the mood was far from joyous. As he patrolled the city's streets that night a few years back, he responded to myriad family fights, accidents, burglary calls and suicide attempts. At one point, he and other officers had to talk an armed man out of killing himself. "I swear to God, the only Christmas tree I saw was the one standing at my door (at home) when I...

    A Holly Ridge man has been accused of slashing the tires of a rescue medical response vehicle, delaying officials as they tried to respond to an emergency call. Connor Murray, 39, of Ridge Willow Road in Holly Ridge, was arrested Friday by Holly Ridge Police Department and charged with injury to personal property and property damage. Murray is accused of slashing six tires on three different vehicles that night, one of which was a rescue medical response unit, which were parked outside of the home of the chief of the Holly Ridge Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department, according...