Re: Fire Dept.

Posted by Destroked 450 on October 31, 2017 at 18:44:32 from (173.242.142.14):

In Reply to: Fire Dept. posted by showcrop on October 31, 2017 at 09:53:21:

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Depends on where your located, Our fire dept is in a small community of a dozen houses with only a post office, we cover 49 square miles but it's 95% farm land and less than 600 property owners. We provide mutual aid for a neighboring town of around 2000 population.

A few years ago we finally got the county to include fire dues on the property tax bill, but it's still volunteer pay, if they don't want to pay they don't have to, but more are paying now than before.

Of the 8 departments in our county only 3 are in towns and 1 is in a good sized community, the rest like mine are at some cross roads with a few houses that's the remnants of a small community in day's past, but are located there in order to cover areas to far out for the city depts.

Water shuttling is big around here, some of the towns water systems are old and inadequate, less than half of the county is supplied by the local water system, the nearest fire hydrant to our fire house is 3 miles away.

A plain jane commercial cab fire truck will cost nearly $300K, we where lucky and got a FEMA grant in 2010 to purchase a new fire engine, 2 door commercial cab demonstrator with a nice pump and foam system was over $280k.

Bunker gear, coat, pants, boots, gloves and helmet will cost over $2500 per set today, air paks are another $6500, the small amount of funds we get barely keeps us supplied with the needed equipment in order to keep the doors open, nothing left to pay fire fighters, not even me the chief.

Everyone is volunteer and although the state and county want's all fire fighters to be EMT certified less than 10% are, they where talking about forcing us to take the training, but after over 75% of the members from all 8 departments threatened to walk if they where forced to become EMT certified they backed off.

I provide enough of my free time to the fire service, local ambulance service and EMT's get paid, if they want me to train and provide medical services, they need to pay me for it.

Not many volunteering these days, they don't want the spend the time taking all of the added training now required. No way am I going to tell them they have to take additional medical training so that they can get up at two in the morning and go bandage someones stumped toe.

Most are CPR and AED trained for life and death emergencies but that's enough, I volunteered for fire service, not medical.

Sorry for the rant, I just get wound up about them wanting us to proved more free services while their all getting paid.

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