I agree with JackO and have contacted our city council members when this all got started. When I moved to DeBary in '05 I did the same thing, stopped by the fire house introduced myself and got the SAME reception he did, Thanks but No Thanks we have plenty of volunteers and the list is so long I won't bother to put your name down.

Clearly it appears their worried about their jobs just as the rest of us are unfortunately! How can you have individuals fire fighters making claims for the county?? In NY we had a siren that blew a code to all the vlounteers that would indicate what intersection the call was for, if you were close to the fire house head there, if not head to the fire location. Maybe if we had the same system in DeBary we it could also double as a Early Warning system for hurricane/tornados?? Maybe even grant money is available to fund it!! We had a handful of paid firefighters and volunteers made up the other 90%. Time we started getting back to basics, it's not like we have a tremendous amount tall buildings to fight fires in!!