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FIREFIGHTER AND PARAMEDIC RECRUITMENT

Thank you for your interest in employment as a firefighter or firefighter/paramedic with the Unified Fire Authority. Since we have an existing hiring lists for both positions, we do not anticipate another recruitment for Firefighter until the late fall of 2008, or another recruitment for Paramedic until the summer of 2008 . If you are interested in receiving additional information regarding either recruitment process, please fill out the attached interest form

Please note that we will not send you any additional information until we are ready to begin the recruitment process. When you return this form to us, your name will be placed on an Interest List. Completing this form does not register you to take the examination, nor is it considered an application. It just allows us to mail/email you information about the application and testing process once the recruitment and examination dates have been established. We will not be accepting official applications or test registrations, mailing out information, or testing for firefighter positions until the recruitment period begins. If your contact information changes, please submit a new interest form.

Firefighters are required to be certified as EMT-basic in the state of Utah prior to being hired. It is likely that by 2008, this will be required to be eligible for participating in the testing process as well. Paramedics are required to be certified as a Paramedic in the State of Utah in order to begin working, and in order to participate in the testing process, they must be either certified in the state of Utah, or another state, or be nationally registered. Information regarding EMT or Paramedic certification may be obtained from the Utah State Bureau of Emergency Medical Services at (801) 538-6435.

For those individuals who are hired as Paramedics, the UFA recognizes time employed (as a full-time Firefighter or Paramedic) for a fire-based, paramedic-providing agency. Credit for time is awarded on a year-for-year basis and the maximum amount that is recognized is five years. Credit for time is for pay purposes only and is not recognized for any purpose associated with the employee’s seniority date. Specific information on how this credited time affects pay will be provided in the recruitment materials available when the recruitment begins.