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The Legacy Engine explores the human and organizational factors affecting volunteer fire service sustainability, including staffing, leadership, workload, attrition, and organizational capacity. This 592-page paperback represents an earlier stage in the development of the broader Legacy Engine body of work.
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Description
The Legacy Engine examines the challenges facing volunteer fire departments and the organizational systems that shape staffing, sustainability, leadership, participation, and long-term department health.
Developed from research, field experience, and practical fire service application, the book looks beyond simple recruitment numbers and asks a broader question: what makes a volunteer organization sustainable over time?
The book explores the pressures placed on volunteer departments, the role of organizational culture and leadership, the effects of workload and attrition, and the need for better ways to understand staffing and organizational capacity.
This edition represents an earlier stage in the development of the Legacy Engine body of work. Many of the ideas introduced here later developed further into the expanded Legacy Engine Series, including PEOPLE FIRST, LEMS, and additional organizational sustainability models.
Additional information
| Paperback | Paperback perfect bound |
|---|---|
| ISBN | 978-1-257-00741-7 |
| Author | Thomas McKellips |
| Pages | 592 |
| Trim | 6 × 9 in |
| Interior | Color |
| Paper | 60# White, Uncoated |
| Cover Finish | Glossy |
| Published | 2025 |
