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You think the guys who don’t get paid at all are paid pretty damn well? I don’t follow.
Volunteer firefighters are not unpaid, that not what volunteer means in this context. They are not full time, professional firefighters, they have normal jobs and when a call goes out, whoever can make it drops what they're doing and goes in. But they absolutely get paid, very well, for their time, from the tax payers dollar. Or by directly suing for restitution as with my car accident. $1700 for a gaggle of looky lous
Volunteer firefighters are unpaid. That is what volunteer means in this context. They make $0.
There are some places where they get tossed a few bucks per call, but most of them don’t make a cent.
In our town they are paid hourly at calls
Then they’re not volunteers. They’re PRN employees. What you have in your town is a paid, professional fire department.
Volunteers on the other hand not paid. They don’t make a dime at any fire call. The law generally allows small, nominal cash rewards as incentives while still being considered volunteer, like awarding a couple hundred bucks at the end of the year for top responders, or a small dispensation of cash per call, but that’s it.
More than 80% of the fire departments in the United States operate this way, with over 65% of firefighters in the country being unpaid volunteers. The firefighters in your town are not included in these numbers.