Rural Fire department volunteer or paid

[SJVFD_Probie]

In Lancaster County, PA, we got 100% volunteer fire departments, and about 75%-25% paid to volunteer EMT's and Medics.

[pharmd_emt]

2 full time paid ff/ems; the rest of us volunteer. Town of 8000 and outlying areas.

[TheCountryMedic]

Our system in our town right now in Vol. but times are changing and we might have to go to paid soon. Everyone working the day shift, so there might be a plan in the near future to go paid, but right now, there is 3 of us answering the call for 2000 here in our town.

Peace.....

[watervliet2193]

Fire side is paid on call. Your pay depends on the level of lcensure, for instance my highest liscense is Fire Officer II= $13.00 We are paid for the first hour than in Half hour increments/

[THE_DITCH_DOCTOR]

Fire side is paid on call. Your pay depends on the level of lcensure, for instance my highest liscense is Fire Officer II= $13.00

Crap....I need to go up there.

[krys_828]

porter fire department is what they call a "combonation department". that means we have a full time duty crew, but have volunteers also. Their is a little tension between the volunteers and the duty crew, but I guess that is to be expected. I t still works out pretty well though! me- 100% volunteer firefighter.

[Katee]

Our FD is all volunteer..... we run non-transportable rescue unit. We go on calls from home. That's it.

[wyo-emt]

Our Dept. is 6 full time fire/ambulance and 50 vol. emt's are paid not well but paid

[dfd707]

:shock: We are Volunteer and receive a stipend for calls. Ambulance and fire are combined and work well together. Toughest thing is getting to the damn station. I do forsee a paid department in the next few years - finding voluteers (stipend or not) in todays world of double jobs etc... its going to happen. Oh yeah, Population 7200 with around 580 ems runs per year.

[Fyrfytr1434]

FD is pure voluteer, all area EMS is paid, from minimum wage to around $8/hr