volunteer fire department
Community emergency responders
A volunteer fire department is a fire station staffed by unpaid firefighters who respond to emergencies in their community.
Common in rural areas and small towns that can't support a professional department, volunteers typically have other jobs and carry pagers or radios to respond when called: The volunteer fire department held a pancake breakfast to raise funds for new equipment.
- engineMachine producing motion
- hydrantStreet-side water outlet
- hoseFlexible fluid conduit
- rescueSave from harm
- burn victimPerson injured by heat
smoke inhalation · ladder · alarm · first responders · emergency · turnout · siren · pager · mutual aid · fire safety education · fire lookout tower · fire retardant · fire chief · fire station · pancake breakfast · on-call · pancake · fish fry
- Small-Town Lifegeneral store, town square, front porch, church steeple, water tower
- Great PlainsGreat Plains, high plains, High Plains, grassland, grasslands
- Rural Americafarm, barns, heartland, countryside, Midwest
- rural SouthBaptist church, dirt roads, gravel roads, backroads, country roads
- small townssmall town, hamlet, town, village, settlement
- local politicstown council, city councils, town meeting, mayors, alderman
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