basically there are 4 types of public FDs in the USA Type 1 - totally funded by contributions from local folks - not very common - maybe more common in the deep south - maybe 1% of FDs - lots of fish frys and pancake dinners and gun raffles etc - bingo even maybe
Type 2 - funded by a mixture of tax money and donations - more common in NY and PA maybe - maybe 5% of FDs - maybe many of these FDs also raise money by running function halls next to the fire station - which makes for a handy storm shelter Type 3 - funded primarily by tax moneys from a local government budget - maybe 50% of FDs Type 4 - funded primarily by taxes raised by a fire district - these fire district taxes are set by the governing board of the fire district (who typically are retired members of the FD or local leaders or members of the FD) - maybe 45% of FDs just pulling this info from the brain registers - might be off by 20% to 2000% - give or take a millenia -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "massfire" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/massfire/CAFXWwKYig2NDy8k-qMgZqvwKDdbhAjZy0mhXnJjJihiiUxWgOQ%40mail.gmail.com.
