Volunteer firefighters, emergency response teams can you help?

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I'll try to keep it short a wk ago or so we had to call 911 to go check on someone, they had to break in anyways this area is volunteer and the first fire department that was pager twice, didn't show or call they were only 4 miles away the second station responded on the first call out, they were 1/2 hr away, so my question is this the other station made a delay of 45 mins per the other department, then it took the second station a 1/2 so for 3/4 hour was basically wasted, when the person was found they were well pretty much DOA, they are still fighting for life in ICU this was a wk ago almost know, we would like to write a thank you to the team the showed and well like to info the area new paper about the other station to warn the sounding family's of this possible life or death that could happen to them, don't know what can be done if anything to fix this problem?  Thanks for any help in this matter.  MI is the state if that matters.

gapgirl · Accepted Answer

Being a volunteer/career firefighter, a volunteer station is just that, volunteer. Was this call in the day time or the night time. In the day time lots of volunteers aren't available, because they're working on their full-time jobs. 8/10 this is the case. May be the other station had the folks to respond. Giving them a thank you is great, before you want to complain about the 1st due rescue, please get their side of this. Alot of volunteer stations go through this.I work full-time at a fire department during the day hours, If a call comes in( my area;at my voulnteer station) and I'm at work, I can't get off to go to the call. Its all about man-power. Hope this have given you a little light into the volunteer fire service.

sum gui · Answer

You should probably first take your complaints to the next County Council meeting. In most areas where there is a rural volunteer fire department, they are at least somewhat governed by the County Council. If not, go directly to the Volunteer Chief of that station and discuss your problems with them. If you don't get a satisfactory response, contact the State Fire Marshal for guidance.

Volunteer firefighters, emergency response teams can you help?

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