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Burning with Suspense
- grabcocque 9y ago“The firefighters are all volunteers.” Yeah, okay. But why?
- pvaldes 9y agoI guess that, as small village in an economically depressed landscape, didn't have resources for hiring full time enough professional firefigthers. Moreover, all remaining people with houses in the area would be very interested in stopping the arsonist as soon as possible. "Invisible" systems that just work flawless in normal circumstances, get out of the road and crash in unexpected ways on crisis times or even after the crisis has recovered.
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- empath75 9y agoMost emts and firefighters in the us are volunteers.
- empath75 9y agohttp://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/style/2014/04/09/love-and-fire/?utm_term=.09601460b769 http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/style/2014/04/09/love-and-f... If you want the full story without reading the book.
- judyglog55 9y agoI live in a smallish town-4500-and we actually have a paid fire department.