Where I grew up has dedicated, paid firefighters that are part of the local government budget, along with EMS. It was wild to me when I moved over here that EMS is private and firefighting is volunteer. I can't say anything about the firefighting services, since I've not yet had to use them, but for sure the EMS response is quite a bit worse.
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Where I grew up has dedicated, paid firefighters that are part of the local government budget, along with EMS. It was wild to me when I moved over here that EMS is private and firefighting is volunteer. I can't say anything about the firefighting services, since I've not yet had to use them, but for sure the EMS response is quite a bit worse.