Fire chiefs and commissioners are pushing Albany to allow small stipends for volunteer firefighters, warning that response ...

A wave of nerves rolled through the Ferndale Volunteer Fire Department when the idea of forming a Quick Response Unit (QRU) first surfaced. Over the past few years, the department had gone through ...

Financial incentives like tax breaks, training stipends and even nominal compensation to have volunteers staff fire stations in rural areas of state.

Statewide, fire officials say volunteerism has reached its lowest rate in forty years, reaching a breaking point that could ...