Ohio volunteer fire departments are funded through local levies. That forces small rural communities to rely on shoestring ...

It’s often taken for granted, Cape Girardeau firefighter Chris Miller said, that people can call emergency services for a structure fire and know that a fire engine will soon arrive to extinguish it.

The majority of Ohio's volunteer fire departments are staffed by volunteers. While the number of volunteers is decreasing, ...

Volunteer firefighting in New York State developed out of community necessity and neighborly cooperation. In the colonial and early national periods, towns and villages had no organized public safety ...