This is the 'most aggressive hiring effort' in decades, fire chief says
The Menlo Park Fire District hired 20 firefighters and firefighter paramedics this year, marking "the largest, single most aggressive hiring effort since at least the 1980s, if ever," Fire Chief Harold Schapelhouman said Wednesday.
Nine of the new firefighters graduated from the San Mateo County Fire Academy this week and will soon be assigned to one of the stations in the district, which includes Atherton, East Palo Alto, Menlo Park and nearby unincorporated areas.
Fire District officials held off on hiring new employees during the economic recession, Chief Schapelhouman said.