House bill 597 has been ratified and it provides for volunteer firefighters with 5 years of service to purchase lifetime hunting and/or fishing licenses for half price.
FEE REDUCTION OF LIFETIME HUNTING AND FISHING LICENSES ISSUABLE TO A VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTER WHO HAS SERVED FOR AT LEAST FIVE YEARS SECTION 12.G.S.113-276 is amended by adding a new subsection to read:"(o)An eligible member of a volunteer fire department for five consecutive fiscal years, including the prior fiscal year, may be issued any adult resident lifetime license issued and administered by the Wildlife Resources Commission for fifty percent (50%) of the applicable license fee amount. For purposes of this subsection, the term "eligible member"means an individual appearing on the certified roster of eligible firefighters submitted to the North Carolina State Firefighters' Association under G.S.58-86-25."
https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2019/Bills/House/PDF/H597v8.pdf
This is great, although no one in the family will benefit, but still great.
I was a volunteer FF for 31 years, now drawing the NC volunteer FF pension, which I have drawn since I turned 50.
My daughter served as a volunteer FF/EMT for 10 years, until work and children made it impractical to stay with.
My oldest grandson, now 18, is started as a cadet in a VFD at age 14, and today has his NC Level II Firefighter certification and EMT certification and currently employed as a full time firefighter, and part time FF in a different department, in addition to volunteering at 2 other departments. He became an EMT while still in high school.
My younger grandson, now 16, is a cadet volunteer FF, and is doing an internship through the high school at the department, and riding the ambulance most afternoons, and taking FF related courses through the community college, and will have his FF Level II by graduation.
But both of them have their lifetime hunting/fishing licenses, as their other grandpa gave it to them when they were born.
Guess you could say that firefighting is in our gene pool, three generation at least.
FEE REDUCTION OF LIFETIME HUNTING AND FISHING LICENSES ISSUABLE TO A VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTER WHO HAS SERVED FOR AT LEAST FIVE YEARS SECTION 12.G.S.113-276 is amended by adding a new subsection to read:"(o)An eligible member of a volunteer fire department for five consecutive fiscal years, including the prior fiscal year, may be issued any adult resident lifetime license issued and administered by the Wildlife Resources Commission for fifty percent (50%) of the applicable license fee amount. For purposes of this subsection, the term "eligible member"means an individual appearing on the certified roster of eligible firefighters submitted to the North Carolina State Firefighters' Association under G.S.58-86-25."
https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2019/Bills/House/PDF/H597v8.pdf
This is great, although no one in the family will benefit, but still great.
I was a volunteer FF for 31 years, now drawing the NC volunteer FF pension, which I have drawn since I turned 50.
My daughter served as a volunteer FF/EMT for 10 years, until work and children made it impractical to stay with.
My oldest grandson, now 18, is started as a cadet in a VFD at age 14, and today has his NC Level II Firefighter certification and EMT certification and currently employed as a full time firefighter, and part time FF in a different department, in addition to volunteering at 2 other departments. He became an EMT while still in high school.
My younger grandson, now 16, is a cadet volunteer FF, and is doing an internship through the high school at the department, and riding the ambulance most afternoons, and taking FF related courses through the community college, and will have his FF Level II by graduation.
But both of them have their lifetime hunting/fishing licenses, as their other grandpa gave it to them when they were born.
Guess you could say that firefighting is in our gene pool, three generation at least.
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