VOLUNTEER FIRE FIGHTING. The University agrees that the full pay of an employee continues during the time spent during normal working hours in fighting fires, diving, and responding as a State Certified Emergency Medical Technician, provided the employee is a bona fide member of the unit that is engaged in the activity and has presented such proof as required by the University. Such employees are not to leave work for these purposes without first securing the approval of their supervisor. Such employees who are going to be late for work because they are already involved in responding to an emergency, must call in and notify their supervisor of the situation as soon as practicable.
VOLUNTEER FIRE FIGHTING. The full pay of an employee shall be paid dur- ing the time spent by the employee during the employee’s regular working hours in fighting fires or in answering other public alarms, provided that the employee is a member of the volunteer fire depart- ment that is engaged in the activity or, in the event of a forest fire, the employee is engaged in an organized forest fire fighting operation in the area in which the employee’s campus or center is located (see Section 28.7 below). A member of a volunteer fire department shall be permitted to wear a device necessary for receiving alarm messages, but shall not respond to an alarm unless permission to leave work has been granted by the employee’s supervisor either at the time or by advance arrangement.
