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Originally Posted by IrishLake
There is such a thing as volunteer fire departments. It's not unheard of around here for small municipalities to ax the fire department and/or police department budget. County sheriffs deputies then take over patroling that area, and the fire department goes to a volunteer, or looks to a neighboring department.
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While many smaller or rural areas around here have volunteer fire depts with backup coming from larger cities, I've never seen a regular FD get fired.
You can't even put together a volunteer dept that fast. If that town goes through with it, then they better have a good backup plan.