Inside New York’s volunteer firefighter shortage
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Inside New York’s volunteer firefighter shortage
great article - very well written
It’s estimated that New York State has lost between 30-40% of its
volunteer firefighters since the start of the decade.
https://www.wbng.com/2026/05/14/inside-new-yorks-volunteer-firefighter-shortage/
numbers are wildly misleading though - many of those FDs have 1 call
per week - no way they will ever have fulltime staffing - people would
be bored to death
maybe if they increase the benefits and cut out the BS calls at 2 AM
they can get more staffing - more integration between FD and PD and
EMS could be good also
ps - the rock bottom staffing at any FD is 1 person -
https://youtu.be/tnUtuxxHmy4?si=jeeh_-va7_I42Fzx - and it only takes 1
person to shoot a gun or do cpr or first aid - so - worse comes to
worse - 1 fire truck and 1 radio and 1 person is the bottom line -
unless we are going to switch over to robots
great article - very well written
It’s estimated that New York State has lost between 30-40% of its
volunteer firefighters since the start of the decade.
https://www.wbng.com/2026/05/14/inside-new-yorks-volunteer-firefighter-shortage/
numbers are wildly misleading though - many of those FDs have 1 call
per week - no way they will ever have fulltime staffing - people would
be bored to death
maybe if they increase the benefits and cut out the BS calls at 2 AM
they can get more staffing - more integration between FD and PD and
EMS could be good also
ps - the rock bottom staffing at any FD is 1 person -
https://youtu.be/tnUtuxxHmy4?si=jeeh_-va7_I42Fzx - and it only takes 1
person to shoot a gun or do cpr or first aid - so - worse comes to
worse - 1 fire truck and 1 radio and 1 person is the bottom line -
unless we are going to switch over to robots
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