"Driving around town and noticing recruitment signs, I decided to dig further for the PBS website Next Avenue. Speaking to fire chiefs, I realised they are in crisis since more than 60% of all firefighters in the US are volunteers, and rural areas can't get young people to join."
"The exterior firefighting training owned my life for three months, with night classes and Saturday sessions covering everything from operating a pump panel to throwing ladders, he says. We started every session with a donning drill, racing to put 40lb [18kg] of equipment on in under a minute."
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