Volunteer Recruitment Day at the Glen Cove Fire Department

A half dozen fire trucks sitting outside the Glen Cove Volunteer Fire Department may seem like a bad sign on most days, perhaps one of an imminent emergency. But the trucks were pulled out of the garage last Sunday for a much more optimistic reason: because the department needed the space for its Volunteer Recruitment Day.

Department representatives manned tables with volunteer firefighter sign-up sheets, and answered potential recruits’ questions.

Several department members said that recruitment days are crucial to its success, because all of the firefighters are volunteers. The only paid employees are the dispatchers.

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