Talk:Volunteer fire department

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I am a career firefighter in Il. I am looking for the history of the red and greenlights on fire apparatus and fire stations. who, where, why and when? Can you help? write me at kevinbewley@sbcglobal.net thanks for your help do you know what 2q2+2= how about ~pxr2= are you an engineer? please respond.

[edit] Dues vs Tax Based

I came to the article hoping to find some details on the history of tax-funded versus dues-funded Volunteer Fire Departments, after seeing discussion on an incident where a rural Missouri fire department refused to fight a fire because the property owner wasn't paid up [1] . I have found in searches that the practice of funding by dues has been going on for some time [2], but I was hoping someone could shed more light on its history.

--Robotech_Master 20:23, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] National perspective

Yo, I may be mistaken, but most of this article seems to present a phenomenon in the United States as if it is global. It needs to be rewritten to specify when we're talking about a system in the U.S. or when a foreign system is being discussed. 07:55, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] United Kingdom

I edited to change "no" to "almost no" as there is at least one in Britain: the Peterborough Volunteer Fire Brigade. 81.158.2.226 15:07, 27 July 2007 (UTC)