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Post by firefemale dog20 on Nov 15, 2006 23:34:56 GMT -5
just wondering can anyone give me the laws for junior firefighter on what they can do and cant do getting alot of different answers
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Post by Medic13 on Nov 16, 2006 0:50:19 GMT -5
This is from the PA Child Labor Law. It's pretty easy to understand. Obviously many departments have stricter policies, but this is the general drift. Times are still determined in Section 4, and the exception of a 17 year old who has graduated or dropped out can be found in section 7.2 - I didn't include them but they can be found easily if desired.
Section 7.3 Minor Volunteer Fire Company, Volunteer Ambulance Corps, Volunteer Rescue Squads and Volunteer Forest Fire Crew Member Activities.
(a) Minors who are members of a volunteer fire company and volunteer forest fire crew may participate in training and fire-fighting activities as follows:
(1) Drivers of trucks, ambulances or other official fire vehicles must be eighteen years of age. (2) Minors sixteen and seventeen years of age who have successfully completed a course of training equal to the standards for basic fire-fighting established by the Department of Education and the Department of Environmental Resources, may engage in fire-fighting activities provided that such minors are under the direct supervision and control of the fire chief, an experienced line officer or a designated forest fire warden.
(3) No person under eighteen years of age shall be permitted to
(i) operate an aerial ladder, aerial platform or hydraulic jack, (ii) use rubber electrical gloves, insulated wire gloves, insulated wire cutters, life nets or acetylene cutting units,
(iii) operate the pumps of any fire vehicle while at the scene of a fire, or
(iv) enter a burning structure.
(b) The activities of minors under sixteen years of age shall be limited to:
(1) Training. (2) First aid.
(3) Clean-up service at the scene of a fire, outside the structure, after the fire has been declared by the fire official in charge to be under control.
(4) Coffee wagon and food services.
(c) In no case, however, shall minors under sixteen years of age be permitted to:
(1) Operate high pressure hose lines, except during training activities; (2) Ascend ladders, except during training activities; or
(3) Enter a burning structure.
(d) All other activities by minors who are members of a volunteer fire company or a volunteer forest fire crewman shall be permissible unless specifically prohibited by this act.
(e) No rule or regulation of any State agency concerning minor volunteer firemen shall be adopted or promulgated except by amendment to this act.
(f) All other existing provisions of this act and the regulations promulgated thereunder affecting the employment of minors shall be applicable in all cases, including the requirements for employment certificates and the limitations on hours of employment: Provided, That a minor sixteen or seventeen years of age who is a member of a volunteer fire company who answers a fire call while lawfully employed and continues in such service until excused by the one acting as chief of that fire company shall not be considered in violation of this act for any part of the period so occupied: And further provided, That a minor who is fourteen or fifteen years of age, who is a member of a volunteer fire company and who performs the training or fire-fighting activities permitted for such minor under the provisions of this act between the hours of seven o'clock in the evening and ten o'clock in the evening before a day of school with written parental consent shall not be considered in violation of this act.
(g) Any minor who is a member of a volunteer ambulance corps or rescue squad may participate in training and any other activity as provided by regulations adopted by the Department of Labor and Industry but in any case, drivers of all ambulances or other official ambulance corps or rescue squad vehicles must be eighteen years of age.
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Post by GVEMS11 on Nov 16, 2006 6:34:11 GMT -5
Check with your State Representative (Tina Pickett for most of us). They publish a booklet about the Labor Laws and other related laws that govern minors in emergency services. It even has examples of rules for a junior program, and examples of the posting requirements for within your station etc.
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