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Crisis Looms as America’s Volunteer Firefighters Burn Out

October 20, 2014

Almost 300 years after U.S. founding father Benjamin Franklin established the very first volunteer fire department, the time-honored American tradition of unpaid good Samaritans banding together to save homes and properties in their community is in danger of being extinguished. Franklin founded The Union Fire Company with 30 volunteers in 1736. In addition to Franklin, […]

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