What happens if you call 911, but no one is there to help? In some areas of Warren County, that scary scenario remains a distinct possibility. There are nineteen fire departments in Warren County and ...

HF 1002 is specifically aimed at small volunteer fire departments with a budget less than $100,000. For every local dollar contributed, the state will match up to three times.

Across the nation, there has been a decrease in the number of volunteer firefighters and that trend is showing right here in Northwest Ohio.

Roughly 70% of Virginia’s firefighters are volunteers and 552 fire departments rely on them, but their ranks are thinning here and elsewhere. Nationally from 1984 to 2018, there has been an ...

When it was formed in 1890, Gratwick Hose Fire Co. No. 6 had thousands of volunteer supporters. Today, the number of volunteers supporting the Lumber City fire company has dwindled to just 15. It’s a ...

The Levelland Fire Department is currently recruiting 18-year-olds to apply for its next class of Volunteer Firefighters.

Avon Volunteer Fire Department Chief Bruce Appell said there were about 100 volunteer firefighters in town 40 years ago. Over the last decade, numbers have decreased and stayed consistent at about ...

For New York, the falloff in recruitment has been stark. John D’Alessandro, a volunteer firefighter in Saratoga County and the secretary of the Firefighters Association of the State of New York ...

A biochemistry student, a fourth-generation firefighter and a finance ... to reach the initiative’s 200-member recruitment goal. In 1975, the National Volunteer Fire Council and Pennsylvania ...

The ranks of volunteer firefighters ... of the last firefighter census in 2017. A study by the office of Comptroller Sean Scanlon documents what Scanlon called “a recruitment and retention ...

The recruitment effort comes as volunteer firefighter groups across the county have seen a drop in numbers, a trend officials say extends two decades. Leaders with the statewide agency ...