Your taxes pay for the house and equipment. Can you imagine how much full time firefighters and EMTs will cost? Not just salaries but the benefits and enough back up. Thank goodness for the volunteers.
That’s where I let capitalism get the best of me.
I HATE volunteering.
The idea of doing anything remotely close to work and not getting paid drives me to near madness :)
I volunteered for the Trump campaign and will again though.
but let’s be frank, that’s a long term financial investment :)
I grew up in an Illinois hamlet of about 100 people with one fire truck and about a dozen volunteer firefighters. When a fire started the siren at the firehouse would call the firefighters, who dropped all other work and raced to the fire. Fire departments from nearby small towns joined the fray. It was a system that worked imperfectly but it was better than no fire department at all, which is what we would have had if “professionals” were required.
Amen to that.