Thank you for considering employment with our fire district. We have carefully prepared this package to answer many of your questions, orient you to the special nature of our part time positions, and begin the application process should you desire.
Firefighting, even at the part time or volunteer level, is an elite, dangerous, and physically demanding endeavor. From one vantage, the demands at Little Rock-Fox are greater than those of a full time firefighter because most of us do this work in addition to our regular jobs. Add in the mental demands of responding to emergencies and interacting with humans, usually in crisis, and you have a low paying, highly demanding, part time job that is appropriate for only a few.
Even though the number of actual structure fires nationwide generally continues to drop each year due to more and better Fire Prevention programs, we must train for and be prepared, every day, for the worst. This preparation is time consuming, usually difficult, but critical to our ability to respond safely, rapidly, and fulfill our Mission and Code of Honor (both attached)
Firefighting and EMS are exciting, interesting, and life-changing. They are also difficult, dangerous, and can be life-ending. The rush of exhilaration and accomplishment is without equal. But one of the challenges is we are called on at all hours and must transition our bodies
from being at full-rest (even sleeping) to maximum physical capacity almost immediately – without warm-up or preparation time. This taxes firefighters’ systems well beyond normal limits.
If you are still interested, completing and returning the Applicant Personal Data Questionnaire will begin the process.