[wintertime]

Actually, we don’t have government firemen. Ours is a completely private volunteer ( and highly trained ) PRIVATE organization.

[Nevadan]

re: “Actually, we don’t have government firemen. Ours is a completely private volunteer ( and highly trained ) PRIVATE organization.”
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We have volunteer firemen as well in our state in some of the more rural communities. However, these volunteers are trained by the “government” firemen. That is probably also true of your volunteer firemen.