Career firefighters crack me up. You say there are not enough volunteers in order to justify your salary and staffing numbers, yet every attempt is made to discredit the individual volunteer while holding him/her to the line of participation, making his/her percentage and when slipping below the numbers set forth by the state for credit toward his/her exemption, their turn out gear is pulled. They are volunteers and as such donate their time. They cannot compete with a paid department and should not have to. You guys are killing us, and are loving every minute of it.