Junior firefighters Yesterday when I was taking my sons and one of their friends to join junior firefighters weekly training event I began thinking if other countries have similar activity for their youth. Quick search with Google proves it to be so. I hadn’t time to investigate it further but I believe they are training same things regardless of a country. In Finland volunteer firefighters have great responsibility in large low populated areas. You could say that major area of our country is protected by volunteers but most people are protected by officials. As a junior firefighter youth have great opportunity to build friendship with others while learning useful skills of fire security and first aid. When youth grow, and leave their hometowns for college or other studies they usually find other activity to fill their spare time in large cities with their new friends. But I have been delighted to notice that they usually join as volunteer firefighters to emergency department when moving back to countryside after wild years around the world.