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Old 02-23-2011, 02:17 PM
PiKA2001 PiKA2001 is offline
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Originally Posted by AGDee View Post
We're not talking about a small rural town. We're talking about a city with a population of over 27,000. The only "volunteer" fire departments I've ever heard of were actually pay per call, not true volunteers. Most of our fire departments have some pay per call members and those people are "on call" for certain shifts. But seriously, relying on an ALL volunteer fire department in this day and age seems kind of crazy. That may have worked if people were farmers and could hear some signal to go to a fire, but when everybody is at their real jobs, who goes to a fire if it is all volunteer? By the time they'd get back to their city of residence, the whole city could be wiped out.
I think Troy is all volunteer.
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