Moyers Corners Fire Department Bunk-In Program

The Moyers Corners Fire Department has been running a Student Bunk-in Program for 9 years now, and it has been a tremendous success. Students who are enrolled in the Fire Protection Technology Curriculum at Onondaga Community College live at our four fire stations. In return for living at our fire stations, the students work regular duty shifts to help maintain the fire stations and apparatus, and when an alarm comes in, act as firefighters and respond with our apparatus. This has not only helped to keep our facilities and apparatus well maintained, but has also helped our daytime staffing.

What do the students gain?
    The students take what they have learned in their fire service training/education and apply it through experience responding to our alarms. The students also gain responsibility, independence, how to work as a team, and many other traits that will help them to be successful in the career fire service. As you can see this is a win/win situation both for the students and the fire department.

What are the requirements to be a part of the program?

1.  Student candidate shall be a minimum of 18 years of age.
2.  Student must go through a formal interview process.
3.  Student shall be a full-time matriculated student enrolled within the Fire Protection Technology degree program at Onondaga Community College or another accredited university.
4.  Student shall be an active member of a recognized volunteer fire department in New York State and outside of Onondaga County, New York.
5.  Student would be required to enter into a written contract with the Moyers Corners Fire Department.
6.  Student is required to maintain a minimum of 2.5 G.P.A. at the college. School is the number one reason the students are in our program, and the fire department cannot stress enough how important it is to us to make sure the students are successful in school.

The program is governed by a Bunk-In Committee and the Chiefs of the Moyers Corners Fire Department.  
We have students from all over New York State, and we can honestly say that we don\\\'t know what we would do without the help of the students named above. If you are a hard worker, a good student, have a passion to make a career out of the fire service, and love to run fire/rescue/medical calls (1700+ a year), then we may have a spot for you. If you are interested, or know anyone who might be, please contact Greg Shaffer at shaffeg@mcfd.org

Where are they now?

Chad Barnes: C&S Engineers, Fire Protection Engineer, Syracuse, New York
Andy Brown: Myrtle Beach Fire Department, South Carolina
Matt Buss: Chesterfield FD - Chesterfield, Virginia
Adam Croman: VA Hospital, Fire Protection Enginer, Austin, Texas
Justin Gershon: City of Albany Dispatcher
Bob Knightingale: Cornelius-Lemley Fire Department, North Carolina
Adam Maier: City of Charlotte Fire Department -  Charlotte, North Carolina
Ryan Norman: New York City Police Department - Manhatten
Anthony Rivelli:  New York City Police Department - Brooklyn
Matt Rovelli: Loudoun County Fire/Rescue - Loudoun County, Virginia
Joe Signorelli: City of Richmond Fire Department - Richmond, Virginia
Greg Smith: Washington DC Fire Department
Eric Smolinski: Montgomery County Fire - Maryland
Cody Thieme: City of Rome Fire Department - Rome, New York
Ken Walsh: City of Charlotte Fire Department- Charlotte, North Carolina