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Then they’re not volunteers. They’re PRN employees. What you have in your town is a paid, professional fire department.

Volunteers on the other hand not paid. They don’t make a dime at any fire call. The law generally allows small, nominal cash rewards as incentives while still being considered volunteer, like awarding a couple hundred bucks at the end of the year for top responders, or a small dispensation of cash per call, but that’s it.

More than 80% of the fire departments in the United States operate this way, with over 65% of firefighters in the country being unpaid volunteers. The firefighters in your town are not included in these numbers.

Most firefighters in the U.S. are volunteer, and make no money at all. Being paid per call is not the norm.

Volunteer firefighters are unpaid. That is what volunteer means in this context. They make $0.

There are some places where they get tossed a few bucks per call, but most of them don’t make a cent.

You think the guys who don’t get paid at all are paid pretty damn well? I don’t follow.

And yet there are still people who those strings completely for free.

For sure. Most people likely would, but not as much.

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