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@@@ We ll see if people really want to try collaboration, said Farmington Fire Chief Terry Bell.
Fire chiefs were told following the April 30 meeting to regroup with their departments to make a list of their strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats and then share them with the larger group at the upcoming meeting.
At the first meeting, the nearly 80 officials in attendance were brought together by mutual problems facing state fire departments such as aging firefighters, decreasing volunteerism and civic participation, declining department budgets and increasing time required for a volunteer to train as a firefighter.
Fire departments already aid each other in fighting fires, but the town officials in attendance were exploring ways to take mutual aid to a formal partnership.
Examples included combining purchasing power, sharing a station and pooling resources to create a fire district responsible for a territory much larger than that of an individual town.
The Franklin County Municipal Officers Association will host the meeting at Franklin Memorial Hospital. The facilitator at the meeting will be Bill Guindon, director of Maine Fire Service Institute.
Guindon said at the last meeting that in other states, there are examples of fire departments from a region coming together as a region, and the success or failure of such mergers depends on the groups willingness to work together.
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