Membership Application

To apply for your FREE membership in VFP - Vermont Fire Page, please fill out the following form.  Fields marked with * are required.  Applications with missing required information will not be processed. 

 

Your application for membership indicates that you understand and agree to follow these 6 rules:

1)  Sending alerts whenever possible is a condition of membership.   Not every area generates activity as frequently as any other place, so there is no hard and fast rule about how many alerts anyone should send.  A member who has sent nothing in 6 months will be dropped.  Only members who participate in VFP by sending valid alerts may receive traffic from more than one Zone.    Members who become unreachable by email will be dropped.

2)  A valid alert is notification of an in-progress incident that has been confirmed by trained public safety personnel at the scene. 

Airport standby alerts (1,2,3) do not require confirmation.  Information regarding drills that generate noticeable radio traffic should be sent to VFP-Chat and not alerted.  Alerts should only be sent for the kinds of incidents that appear on the alert forms.  Update alerts should not be sent unless the incident escalates to a higher priority event type.  Follow-up information may be sent via NYSING-Chat.

3)  All members must remain subscribed to VFP-Chat and to VFP Zones they choose to receive.   VFP-Chat is to be used for administrative announcements and urgent member-to-member communications only.  All members must be able to receive email from the Director, including any VFP-Chat message originating from us and containing the string [Admin] in the subject line.

4)  VFP alerts may not be forwarded to other organizations, nor may alerts from other services be forwarded into VFP.

5)  Abuse of VFP facilities is prohibited.  Abuse includes but is not limited to sending alerts based on information gained by unlawful means (if it's illegal where you are, it's prohibited by VFP), sending personal messages via the VFP alerting system, or engaging in a "flame war" on the Chat list.

6)  Non-voice traffic shall not be relayed directly to VFP by means of cutting and pasting.  Lawfully obtained details may be used to make alerts more complete and accurate, but the information must be summarized rather than forwarded.

 

* Name (first & last):
 Current VFP number
(if updating):
 * County:
 Ham Callsign (if any):

Addresses in domains that use SpamCop are not acceptable!
(Known users:  Buffnet, Localnet)

Experience has taught us that AOL, Adelphia, Earthlink, and Hotmail "forget" customer email addresses periodically, so be sure to provide an alternate address using a different email provider if possible.

Frontiernet.net subscribers must set NYSING.org as "Do Not Block."
* E-Mail for Alerts (this could be a pager account):

(Please be sure to use complete and correct internet address, not a telephone number.)
* E-Mail for Administrative Messages:

(Please be sure to use complete and correct internet address, can not be a cell phone or pager.)
Alternate Emergency E-Mail:

(This will be a non-published backup address in case the other addresses don't work.)
* Your Age: (must be over 18 to apply)
 * How long have you been scanning?
Are you a dispatcher for another alert group?

 Include the name of the alert group:

* Select your Zone of residence.
(You will receive alerts from this Zone.  Active participants can upgrade to multiple Zones.)
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Last updated on 2007 by Bob, VFP-001