The men and women who put their lives on the line to protect others will get a pay raise with the Fernandina Beach Fire Department.
Through the renegotiation of their current merit payment system, Fire Chief Ty Silcox said all personnel will receive a 4% pay increase.
"The 4% that our firefighters are getting was an MOU," Silcox said. "It was to extend our current contract that we have with our firefighters. Our current contract has a merit pay scale of 1%-6% based on the employee's evaluation. We elected to do an MOU with our collective bargaining group to make sure that we could work on a different type of pay scale that we're looking at going to in the future."
Silcox said this will include all 35 personnel for the next two years, which includes all firefighters, EMT, and paramedics.