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 -- 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/CAFXWwKZ6OExgDebgi%3DFV-OnrXZrg%2BxisMCZbEcKUYaHNB69%2Bxw%40mail.gmail.com.
