Protests In Wisconsin

[PiKA2001]

Originally Posted by AGDee

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.

[AGDee]

Originally Posted by PiKA2001

I think Troy is all volunteer.

Sort of. After 10 years of service, they are eligible for a pension. They also have 180 firefighters. Allen Park has 27.

[sceniczip]

Our fire department is a lot volunteer and some paid. Here's the link to the history http://www.valleycityfire.com/siteco...x/page/History It's actually pretty interesting I had a friend who was a volunteer. He lived about a mile away and when on call he just hung out at home.

We do have an ongoing joke that if your house ever catches on fire you better grab the marshmallows on the way out

We have a city about 5 miles away that has a full fire department. It's not ideal but if we had to we could always use them too.