The Piperton, TN Fire Department is a combination Fire & EMS department that protects and responds to the municipality of Piperton, TN adjacent to Collierville, TN. Piperton Fire Department has a total of 1 station.
This department does have a great schedule at 48/96, and equipment is pretty top-tier for where they are and what they do. Low call volume and tiny station. The biggest aspect of a turn-off from this department is the administration. The city administration is far too far into the fire department and the chief is far too micro-managing, followed by random periods of random relaxation and boredom. If you don’t want to do much work, this is the place for you.
This is a department with potential if the current fire chief could set his ego aside and get out of the way of progress.
The Good: 48/96 schedule, decent pay for the area, incentive pay for education and certifications, decent benefits for the area, generous vacation and personal days, decent equipment on the trucks.
The Bad: The rigs are in sad shape and barely holding together. The poor culture in the organization results in rapid turnover and in firefighters being motivated only to do the absolute minimum to get by. Call volume is very low, less than 500 annually, and complacency is the norm.
The Ugly: The fire chief literally micromanages everything. If it’s not his idea, it is not happening. Policy is rarely written down and never consistently applied. What truck responds to what call will change on a daily basis. The fire chief will actually stand in the middle of the street and point to where he wants the driver to park at an incident. The fire chief makes every response about himself and treats his officers and firefighters as if they were stupid. He talks down to his employees. When he asks for ideas (rare), he then proceeds to tell employees what’s wrong with their suggestions and why he is going to do things differently. He does not support employees receiving outside training; if it’s training he has, he tells them they don’t need it because he has it; if it’s training he doesn’t have, he tells them it’s not important. The list could go on… Numerous complaints going back decades have been made against the chief, and he always survives. The city administration thinks the turnover is due to pay and is blind to the toxicity that is there.
Basically, this department is a stepping stone for people trying to get through the door of full-time firefighting. Anyone joining that is competent will quickly grow tired of micromanagement and move on to better places. Those that are slugs and can tolerate the environment will find a sanctuary to hide from real firefighting.
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2 Reviews on “Piperton Fire Department”
This department does have a great schedule at 48/96, and equipment is pretty top-tier for where they are and what they do. Low call volume and tiny station. The biggest aspect of a turn-off from this department is the administration. The city administration is far too far into the fire department and the chief is far too micro-managing, followed by random periods of random relaxation and boredom. If you don’t want to do much work, this is the place for you.
This is a department with potential if the current fire chief could set his ego aside and get out of the way of progress.
The Good: 48/96 schedule, decent pay for the area, incentive pay for education and certifications, decent benefits for the area, generous vacation and personal days, decent equipment on the trucks.
The Bad: The rigs are in sad shape and barely holding together. The poor culture in the organization results in rapid turnover and in firefighters being motivated only to do the absolute minimum to get by. Call volume is very low, less than 500 annually, and complacency is the norm.
The Ugly: The fire chief literally micromanages everything. If it’s not his idea, it is not happening. Policy is rarely written down and never consistently applied. What truck responds to what call will change on a daily basis. The fire chief will actually stand in the middle of the street and point to where he wants the driver to park at an incident. The fire chief makes every response about himself and treats his officers and firefighters as if they were stupid. He talks down to his employees. When he asks for ideas (rare), he then proceeds to tell employees what’s wrong with their suggestions and why he is going to do things differently. He does not support employees receiving outside training; if it’s training he has, he tells them they don’t need it because he has it; if it’s training he doesn’t have, he tells them it’s not important. The list could go on… Numerous complaints going back decades have been made against the chief, and he always survives. The city administration thinks the turnover is due to pay and is blind to the toxicity that is there.
Basically, this department is a stepping stone for people trying to get through the door of full-time firefighting. Anyone joining that is competent will quickly grow tired of micromanagement and move on to better places. Those that are slugs and can tolerate the environment will find a sanctuary to hide from real firefighting.