A Texas city is threatening to stop collecting donations that pay for critical equipment like this hydraulic-lift stretcher.
I typically reserve my commentary type articles for my flagship site but I think it’s appropriate to divest from that practice for the purpose of this post.
The following article tells of a small city that is threatening to stop collecting a voluntary public donation that has brought thousands and thousands of dollars in mission-critical equipment to their combination (paid/volunteer) fire department.
Apparently, the threat is in response to a dwindling number of volunteer firefighters in their department, between 5 and 10, as the article points out. Without a lot of volunteers, they apparently don’t feel it’s appropriate to collect a donation on behalf of the volunteer side of their fire department. This situation seems to be causing quite a riff in the department. (more…)
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