A Sign of The Times?
| By:
Rusty Ricker President@NEFOOLS.org Rusty is a career firefighter/paramedic with over 18 years in the fire service, both career and on-call. He is the President and Founder of the New England FOOLS. |
A sign of the times?
Is it the fact that gas is $3.50-4.00 a gallon? Is it that they’re ‘over-stimulated’ with multiple different options over the summer months? Budgets are “fresh” come July 1st, so it ain’t gone yet. Yet. Time management? Too busy to train? Not enough fun passes? Or used ‘em all up already?
An acquired farmhouse, first offered up as an East Coast option to this year’s Convention. That didn’t work. Had one (1) person sign up, along with three (3) from the host department who was offered six free spots.
July, not-so-much, so we’ll try late September, right? Let the kids get back to school, soccer season starts, football, etc. That’ll work. Who wouldn’t want to come to beautiful New England as the leaves are turning the golden hues of autumn?
Well, a-frikkin-parently, NOBODY DOES.
We had lined up over a dozen of our finest instructors, FDIC and Firehouse just a few of their pedigrees, various state academies, etc. It certainly wasn’t for lack of trying when it came to “bringing it”.
I ask you my Brothers, what is it? Is it a sign of the times? Or just poor timing?
