Volunteer fire departments.

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phobicsquirrel

Do you have a link? Osamacare... Really? On point of the subject I have mad respect for FF however I think they have been abused way to much, at least in portland. They are sent out on most emergency calls which is a waste of taxpayer money. I have family that are FF and they are always talking about it. Not all that familiar with volunteers though. That would suck working 30 hours with no pay.

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jthanatos

FYI

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SleevePlz

jthanatos:

FYI

For the record, the video is from December and the news article is from January. I had concerns that it was the other way around, but nope.

jthanatos

Toombes

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perkinke

blutattoo

I've been a volunteer firefighter/EMT on and off for close to 17 years and the only people who clock 30 hours in a week in our department are folks that go out on strike teams(wildfires) and they are paid through our State OES once they step on the rig. There hasn't been any talk in our department of ACA compliance problems. I wonder if this is state specific. Our department is pretty large though (4 stations and 135+ volunteers) I can't imagine how a smaller department could pay for it if that's true for everywhere. There would have to be a pretty heavy tax levied on the residents of the district.

jd50ae

Beaker38

Being a Volunteer Firefighter myself up Here around Albany New York for about 5 years we knew about this a long time ago and that we were exempt like 3 weeks after the passing of the bill. now on to other issues.... When people don't like paying taxes its called a pay for services. it doesn't happen up in New York as much as down south the thing is that if someones trapped we will rescue them or a pet. but as soon as that's done we wont help. cant expect us to work if you don't fund us. most of the time we offer that if they pay us right then we would step in and help (from what i have heard this is true). trust me i love what i do so much i became a New York State Level 1 Fire Investigator. the last house fire I was at was last night. My area has every house pay a tax and we have an annual budget of around $800k a year but that is spent in a heart beat beacuse everything has to be replaced and these other companys that do this are hurting for the cash. gear which costs around $5k has to be replaced every 10 years due to OSHA and the material breaking down in fire protective material. You are going to be seeing a lot of changes in the next couple years with how we attack fire OSHA eventually saying no to interior fire attack (where we go into burning buildings) saying its to dangerous... but in the end everything we do is dangerous... another thing i want to say is pay your taxes to Volunteer FD's and send in donations it helps pay for banquets and other things they deserve for there time its not much and they need the support there risking there lives and seeing things that no one should ever see. and check the dates and make sure you have working CO and Smoke detectors yes there expensive but the death rate of fires is on the rise some places doubling there last years total already. my area had 8 deaths last year one i was at and did the investigation and the guy was smoking a cigar in bed and didn't make it out in time. . If you guys want i could share some of my interesting story's with you just say so in this post. have any other questions i am just graduating school in the fire protection degree and would love to answer any. . We always want to help and it is hard to see your first fatal fire but that's where things change. You want to see a sad video look up "Station Night club Fire" on YouTube more than 96 people burned to death in that fire due to negligence to fire safety . And last thing is if you ever get to join afire department do so its like a second family to me and many others.