Longer and complex fire seasons are placing increased pressure on rural fire brigades but a shortage of volunteers has raised concerns only a handful will be shouldering the load.

I think for what the Rural Fire Service does they should be paid, what kind of first world country do we live in where we don’t pay all of our emergency services

  • dumdum666@kbin.social
    5·
    9 months ago

    Interesting that you guys seem to do it pretty much like Germany in this regard - most firefighters in Germany are also unpaid volunteers. Personally I am not a fan from that, since I believe that this should be paid services.

    • bitsplease@lemmy.ml
      1·
      9 months ago

      In most cities of any appreciable size we do have paid forces, it’s rural areas and very small cities that generally have volunteer forces. I agree though that they should all be compensated, they sure as hell deserve a salary for their work more than I do mine