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EVERGREEN, Colo. — Evergreen Fire Rescue is considering adding paid positions to its team, a first for the volunteer department.“We have an aging population, we have a growing population,” he said.The district board of the Evergreen Fire Protection District mapped out a master plan in 2023 to determine the best practices for the department in the long run.
“Some subject matter experts took an outside look at the organization,” Fire Chief Weege said. “The very top priority that they had listed was apparatus availability, which was asking us to do a deep dive into how can we get fire trucks on the road faster.”“We had a lot of people willing to volunteer that's finally caught up to us where our academies have gotten smaller," Weege said.
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