Circleville Fire Chief Brian Thompson spoke at Circleville City Council’s Safety Committee this week to provide updates on the personnel status of the department, including progress on bringing back the part-time firefighter program.
Thompson told city council members that he held a meeting with three other fire chiefs to talk about the part-time program and how to make it more successful than it was in the past.
“It was a very fruitful conversation and they had some good ideas,” Thompson said. “My ultimate goal is I want to structure something that works for us. It’s worked for people who exited, but I want to do something more fruitful for the city.”
Thompson said the plan would be to hire 12 part-time firefighters who work every sixth day up to a maximum of 1,500 hours per year. That would add two additional people per shift. The firefighters would likely be professional firefighters who work in other surrounding departments.