Youngstown to start junior firefighter program


August 25, 2013 at 6:09p.m.

Youngstown to start junior firefighter program

YOUNGSTOWN

It’s difficult to recruit city residents for firefighter jobs and even more challenging to hire them, said Fire Chief John J. O’Neill Jr. and Jonathan Huff, civil service commissioner.

So the fire department, civil service and the Mahoning-Youngstown Community Action Partnership are teaming up to create a junior firefighter program to get youths age 12 to 18 interested in becoming firefighters and prepare them for tests.

Read the full story in Monday’s Vindicator.