DO YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO BECOME A VOLUNTEER EMT OR FIREFIGHTER?

• Time to volunteer, commitment
  
• Good references, good driving record, a clear criminal record
  
• A desire to serve the public
  
• Drug-free, fit
  
• High school diploma or GED; or a New Horizons student studying fire/EMT work
  
• 18 years old or still in high school

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Thank you for your interest in volunteering with the City of Hampton Fire and Rescue Division. This is a noble profession with a long tradition of service; one that offers camaraderie and the satisfaction of helping others. We hold volunteers to a high standard--as a matter of public trust. Your success depends on completion of our application, background checks, and acceptance into a station or squad. We offer free training and valuable job experience working alongside career and volunteer personnel--in exchange for a time commitment.

Candidates who come to us with the necessary certifications in firefighting or emergency medical services can be ‘fast tracked’ into a company or squad—after completing the application and background checks. If you do not have certs, training is required, and I’ll discuss that in more detail in your interview. Prior to training—or assignment to a station or squad -- you will be asked to make a time commitment to volunteer for a minimum number of hours a month. There is some flexibility with scheduling those hours in the station.

Please make an appointment with me to notarize documents, make copies, and otherwise guide you through the process. See the ‘checklist’ below to help you pull together the documents needed.  If you do your part, I can get you through the first half in 2 weeks.

Visits by appointment only.
Phone: 757.727.1223
Address: 1300 Thomas Street, Room #98, Hampton, VA 23669

 

Download each form below, fill them out & make an appointment with the Volunteer Recruiter by calling 757.727.1223.

AVERAGE TIME FOR PART ONE OF THE APPLICATION: 2 WEEKS

• Volunteer Application
• 5 Year Driving Record; out-of-state too if needed (letter for VaDMV)
• Directions For Fingerprints And Polygraph
• Authorization To Release Information
• Child Protective Services Form (must be notarized)
  NOTE: DO NOT MAIL TO DSS IN RICHMOND, bring to Volunteer Recruiter Authorization to release info (must be notarized)
• 12 Page Background Questionnaire
• Parental Waiver if under 18:
• Doctor's Release for EMT and firefighting work
• Time Commitment

For Firefighter Applicants ONLY

• Doctor's Release For Fitness Test & Volunteer Waiver
• Schedule Fitness Test (call 757.727.1223 to sign up)
  
• Agility Test (video)
  

We Also Need:

1. A clear copy of your driver’s license
2. A clear copy of your social security card
3. Any Firefighter or EMT certifications, including CPR cards
4. A cashier's check or money order for $7.00 made out to Hampton Fire Rescue (to cover a child protective services background)
5. A cashier's check or money order for $26.00 made out to City of Hampton, City Treasurer to pay for the FBI fingerprinting and background check. Fingerprinting is scheduled Sat/Sun mornings between 7:30-11:30AM (under 18 - no prints, no check needed)
6. The volunteer recruiter will schedule you for the agility test, fingerprints.
7. The polygraph is scheduled when all else is complete.

The volunteer recruiter will schedule you for the agility test, fingerprints.

The polygraph is scheduled when all else is complete.

PART TWO OF APPLICATION:

• Polygraph (1300 Thomas Street) weekdays
• Field investigation

• Qualifiers & Disqualifiers
• Job Description For Volunteer Firefighter
• Job Description For Volunteer EMT
• Map Of Stations
• Information On Stations
• Training Requirements
 
• If volunteer is under 18 years old, a parent
  or guardian must sign each of the following forms:

1. Time Commitment
2. Agility Test Waiver
3. Authorization To Release Information
4. Child Protective Services
5. Parental Waiver Form

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