anything the Firemen don't pay for themselves is ALL paid for with fund raisers, donations and grants, the trucks were all paid for the same way as well as the firehouse itself, the property pays no taxes and i think the gas comes from the County fuel depot... our current firehouse was built in 1935 and is in need of replacement, so the VFD just purchased a larger piece of land for a bigger station less than one mile from the current location and we are doing the fund raising now to build the new station part of which will come from the sale of the current property
we have 4 trucks, one is a tanker/pumper from ponds as there are no hydrants in the country
when there is a fire, mutual aid and support is provided by all the other VFDs in the county when extra men equipment is required
it's been this way since before i was born...