As a former City Clerk, I can tell you that there is no such thing as “a free volunteer firefighter”!! They get paid under local interagency/interlocal agreements for both manpower and trucks used. On interagency/interlocal agreement fires our fire dept guys got over $20.00 per hour, hourly truck charges, plus firefighters life/injury/retirement insurance that the City paid for, plus equipment the City paid for, plus fuel the City paid for, plus truck housing the City paid for. Get the picture? The only thing they did not get paid for were the few fires that were actually within the City limits. And it was a very small City.
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As a former City Clerk, I can tell you that there is no such thing as “a free volunteer firefighter”!! They get paid under local interagency/interlocal agreements for both manpower and trucks used. On interagency/interlocal agreement fires our fire dept guys got over $20.00 per hour, hourly truck charges, plus firefighters life/injury/retirement insurance that the City paid for, plus equipment the City paid for, plus fuel the City paid for, plus truck housing the City paid for. Get the picture? The only thing they did not get paid for were the few fires that were actually within the City limits. And it was a very small City.