10/01/2026
3 hours a week isn’t too much to ask.
That’s less than 2% of your entire week.
Volunteers and paid-per-call members — see if you can invest 3 hours a week into yourself and your department.
I’m not talking about your scheduled meetings.
I’m not talking about department training.
I’m not talking about the calls you happen to make.
I’m talking about 3 hours of your own time spent training.
And no, I’m not saying you need some out-of-the-box, high-speed, technical training.
Practice the basics.
I know everyone is busy. We all are.
But I also see people show up to every call, then stand around with their hands in their pockets because they haven’t invested the time to become useful when the moment actually comes.
Don’t use “I don’t get paid” as an excuse for something you voluntarily signed up to do.
You don’t need the whole department to make yourself better.
You just need to decide that being better at the job is worth 3 hours a week.
3 hours. 2% of your week. What are you doing with it?
Drop some one person basics skill drills to help our brothers & sisters out within the fire service.
