A stronger volunteer fire department means a stronger community response to just about any emergency.
The more people part of the fire companies, the more manpower they have to react to any emergency thrown their way.
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Women make up half of almost every community, he says, yet they are only 10 percent of his recruits.
While fire fighting is seen to be a manly job there are women who do it. If more women were to join the numbers of volunteers would most likely increase quickly.
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“If your fire service is made up of community members, it reflects the community,”
The volunteers will work harder to save the community if they are part of it. That has been shown throughout the article.
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The ad provided a link to the Make Me a Firefighter national website, where potential recruits can search for fire departments in their area. Quiros said that more than 25 percent of departments nationwide have signed up to be in the program’s database.
Adding this into the article has shown how hard up the fire companies are for volunteers. This is very important to this article.
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“Not everybody wants to ride the big, red truck
I think this statement is very true, and has a very big importance for the decline. I think that there is more to it though.
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Nearly 100 firefighters commit suicide each year
By adding this into the text is shows that all fire fighters go through a lot no matter volunteer or career.
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those with fewer than 10,000 residents — are almost always served by volunteer departments
This shows that career firefighters have more of an impact on bigger cities with more residents, while the volunteer fire companies are mainly part of smaller towns.
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Fighting fires as a volunteer requires the same training career firefighters receive. The training requires a significant time investment.
Bodin shows that some do this purely out of the kindness of their heart and their love and dedication for the community, while others do it because they are being paid. Volunteers put more time and dedication into something than those that are being paid.
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volunteer firefighters nationwide has declined 15 percent between its all-time high in 1984 and its all-time low in 2011
While reading this it may not seem like a big number to most, but all the help you can get in an emergency is very important. Adding this has shown that as society gets older and new generations are born they begin to become more lazy and less involved with their community.
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Volunteer fire departments once depended on local employers who offered full-time jobs with benefits to their volunteers and were willing to have employees leave work to fight fires.
Adding this shows that local businesses were supportive of the fire companies and those that ran with them. In todays society it is very hard to find a business that will allow an employee to leave work when duty calls.
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“People who are transplants to new areas may not have that community tie that makes them want to volunteer with the fire department. And people may not even be aware that their community needs volunteers.”
Growing up in the community that they are volunteering for increases the passion they have for helping out in any way they can.
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“Small towns like ours are losing our young adult populations,”
In a small town it is harder to find younger hard working individuals. This is why the numbers are continuing to drop. The volunteers that are part of the fire companies already are becoming to old to do all the required work.
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“There is no force at the state level or at the federal level, with the exception of the National Guard, that can provide a community with rescue, mitigation and recovery services like the fire and emergency services community.”
Bodin added this in most likely to show the importance that the fire companies hold. The community fire companies as well as other first responders hold a very big importance when a disaster occurs. All fire companies work together to contain the disaster. Without enough volunteers this could be a problem.
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Maruca found that not only would that cost taxpayers more, it would also reduce the number of firefighters responding to each call.
This point shows how much the chief really needs people to be apart of the fire company. Adding career firefighters could be a danger on the community. Also those that are volunteer have a passion for firefighting and do it purely for that reason, and not for any repayment.
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Nationwide, volunteer fire departments save municipalities, and taxpayers, $139.8 billion per year in firefighting costs, according to a 2014 report from the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA).
These numbers show how important it is for each and every community to have their fire companies volunteer based.
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But even where the number of volunteer firefighters is holding steady, the number of calls is exploding.
Bodin is showing that the number of calls is increasing while the hands and experienced individuals have not.
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About 70 percent of America’s firefighters are volunteers, and 85 percent of the nation’s fire departments are all or mostly volunteer, according to NFPA.
Bodin is trying to show that volunteer firefighters make up most of the fire companies.
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The nationwide tally of the calls departments respond to each year has tripled in the last 30 years, according to NFPA.
She is trying to use numbers to show how much firefighters really do and how important it is for every fire company to have enough volunteers.
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