Guess what percentage of firefighters are volunteers. It’s a lot!
. When you remove the “hybrid” departments that mix both paid personnel and volunteers, less than 10 percent of fire services in America are provided by “career” firefighters—paid personnel who dedicate themselves to this critical discipline full-time.If you live in a city, where firefighters tend to be salaried, this may seem strange, but you notice the rarity of paid firefighters as soon as you leave town. I serve in a volunteer department within commuter distance of New York City.
For most firefighters and rescue operators, it’s a part-time gig, squeezed into the rare free hours in our wildly busy lives. We carry pagers or do shift work, turning from our demanding jobs and family obligations at a moment’s notice to wrestle into our gear, remember our training, and go to work. Fire-rescue work is intensely technical, complex, and intricate.
over the previous decade, as of 2021. This shows that our volunteer system is working to prevent and contain fires. But there are four main developments that warn of glaring holes in the volunteer system’s ability to keep up., which have been increasing steadily in frequency and size of burned area. Fire seasons are starting earlier and lasting longer. The State Farm decision shows that wildland fires don’t stop in the woods.
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