Reply #17: It runs on blood lines. Grandfathers, fathers, son, and daughters now too... [View All]

[1monster]

I lived in a area where all the fire companies were volunteer. The volunteer fire fighters families would literally have three generations of fire fighers members at any given time.

It becomes a way of life. The fire company was their family and their social life. The kids grew up with it, participated in all aspects of that life, voluteering not just to fight fires, but to fund raise, march in parades, work in booths at fund raising festivals, et als.

Many also became EMTs and were voluntary ambulance drivers.

The voluteers came from all walks of life: the local Postmaster, the farmer, the sales sales clerk, the line worker at the local railroad repair shops, etc., etc.

All the kids wanted to be firemen when they turned 18.

on edits: loads of typos this a.m.