Outreach effort aims for 400 recruits with tagline: ‘Ordinary People. Trained for the Extraordinary. From left to right: Glen Russell, Chair of Recruitment & Retention Committee, Montgomery County Fire Chiefs Association; Ron Griffith, Abington Township Fire Department firefighter; Matt Kozeniewski, Centre Square Fire Company firefighter; George Wilmot, President of the Montgomery County Fire Chiefs Association; Mike Jones, Chief of Abington …

Though Montgomery County is the third most populous county in Pennsylvania, the critical need for volunteer firefighters mirrors the plight of the state and the country:  there is a dire shortage of them.  Fortunately, Montgomery County Fire Chief’s Association has a solution for this: a four-year county-wide recruitment and retention campaign designed to grow its base of volunteer firefighters.  With …