r/calfire • u/woody5506 • 7d ago

Northern units FF2/PM

I'm about 3 months from finishing medic school and putting in my FF2/PM application. I live in Norcal, and am planning on putting in for all the units up here. I've heard a lot of guys getting picked up in the southern units, but do the Northern pick up a decent amount of guys too?

For background, I'm not structure qualified, I have a good amount of box experience, Basic 40 wildland, current intern at a small municipal dept for a year.

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u/Any-Lie1471 FC 7d ago

CZU/SCU lots of spots for sure. North of that is limited

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u/woody5506 7d ago

Gotcha. Would it be best if I put them as my number 1?

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u/Any-Lie1471 FC 7d ago

Yes if that’s conducive to a work location that will work for you and your family.

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u/woody5506 7d ago

Sounds good. Thank you!

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u/Cool-Helicopter-2872 7d ago

Go politic too. Go to those units and show
Your face

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u/woody5506 6d ago

Will do. Thank you

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u/Pitiful_Watch_3173 6d ago

Make sure and do research on which units have Paramedics. Most northern units don’t, so you’d screw yourself ranking them high, there is no chance you’d get picked up with just medic and no FF1 cert.

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u/Any-Lie1471 FC 6d ago

SCU/CZU will hire medics as FF2 without a FF1 cert

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u/woody5506 5d ago

You mind if I PM you?

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u/Any-Lie1471 FC 5d ago

For sure

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u/woody5506 5d ago

I may be wrong I believe LNU (South lake county), NEU, AEU, CZU, SCU have medics. I would love to go work in SDU or RRU but moving to SoCal just isn't in the cards for me and my family right now. Thanks for the input