It really should be a no-brainer to pay the men and women that take on the firefighting role. I'm in the Midwest and the exodus we experienced in volunteer fir

It really should be a no-brainer to pay the men and women that take on the firefighting role. I'm in the Midwest and the exodus we experienced in volunteer firefighting is extremely worrying, on top of that a recent city board meeting went side ways when a hot headed alderman couldn't keep his professionalism in check and blasted 2 recently hired firefighters because they lived outside the 25 mile zone (27, 29 respectfully), due to housing issues. Home fires have only increased since 2020, yet we twiddle our thumbs for proper pay and empowering our fire services that need it. The police got their huge increase in budgets during 2020-2022, but I haven't heard the same for firefighters. Weird considering it's a popular service, I mean I'm not aware of a firefighter equivalent to "FTP".