- Title:
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Developing a Strategy to Nurture, Enhance and Expand the Volunteer Fire Brigade
- Date:
- October 2001
- Organisations
- NZFS
- Authors:
- UMR Research
- Location:
- New Zealand, New Zealand
Overview
This report develops a profile of volunteers in the NZFS to provide direction for strategies that will expand the volunteer fire brigade movement, including increasing the number of Maori and female volunteers.
The qualitative phase of the research consisted of focus groups with Maori urban volunteers, rural volunteers, urban volunteers and with volunteers from other organizations while the quantitative phase consisted of a telephone survey of 500 volunteer fire fighters, including 300 urban volunteers, 150 rural volunteers, and 50 volunteers from composite brigades.
Overall, New Zealand's volunteer fire fighters rate their time spent as volunteers highly, and they say they would recommend the experience to family and friends. Volunteers are proud of the services they fulfill as fire fighters. They value the contributions they make to their communities and the professionalism with which they fulfill their responsibilities.
