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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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Originally Posted by Drolefille
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.
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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.
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