Private Equity Finds a New Source of Profit: Volunteer Fire Departments

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4. VFDs are obsolete

Their biggest problem is they aren't getting younger volunteers as current volunteers age.

Firefighters should be paid professionals and costs if equipment shared by a regional tax base.

My hometown has an annual Xmas parade. The biggest contingent is always the local VFD trucks.
Within a 2 mile radius of where I live there are 3 VFDs and 1 paid, professional FD. Go another mile or so and there are another 3 VFDs. They are all trying to raise money from the same population base. It would be so much more efficient to have either a county FD or perhaps 2 regional FDs organized around the county's 2 paid, professional FDs.