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With a $12 million deficit projected for protective services, Winter Garden is exploring an alternative way to fund its fire rescue department for the next fiscal year — the fire assessment fee.
The Trappe Volunteer Fire Company is raising funds to build an up-to-date firehouse. Rep. Andy Harris (R-Md. 1st) wants to ...
Complete gear for one firefighter is approximately $29,000. That's why this volunteer department is getting creative with ...
Homicides are down 36% in the city compared to this time last year. The city's new budget aims to help keep crime down, with ...
: A local man bought and donated two AEDs. The donor plans to meet Fire Captain Joseph Siedel to give him the donation in ...
Cuba Community Volunteer Fire Department is asking the community to help them continue the life saving work that they do.
Fire departments across the region are facing growing challenges with a lack of staffing, outdated equipment, and facilities.
Departments that received water in 2025 met criteria, including having responded to wildfires in 2024 and planning to do so in 2025, being over 50% volunteer, and serving a population of 25,000 or ...
That used to be a candidate pool where we would see 30, 40 to 50 candidates,” says Travis Teesch, fire chief for Neenah-Menasha Fire Rescue. Teesch says they’re not the only ones seeing it, but as ...
TRIADELPHIA, W.Va. — The chief of the Triadelphia Volunteer Fire Department in Ohio County hasn’t been home since Saturday evening. David Patterson and his crew have been running calls non ...
With Criner Hills being a volunteer fire department, they need funding to not only have all of their equipment, but to make these trainings possible. “We host two fundraisers a year, one in ...
Above, left: Roxton Volunteer Fire Department held their fund raising fish fry Saturday night at the fire station. The weather was warm and so was the delicious fresh fried fish, fries and all the ...