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The Board of Directors of the Amissville Volunteer Fire Department and Emergency Medical Service announced this week that it will have to reduce the level of services it provides the Amissville community unless the sum of $5,000 can be raised prior to January 1,1985.
The reason for this decision is that the Department’s income has not been able to keep pace with its operating expenses. The Department presently has about $1,000 in the bank while its normal operating expenses average about $3,000 per month.
This year the Department has been especially hard-hit because bad weather plagued the annual carnival in July. The result: The carnival made only a small fraction of what it usually takes in. On top of this, a fire-truck engine had to be replaced at a cost of more than $4,800.
Each year the operating expenses of the fire department increase as the cost of everything the department need8 in order to operate goes up. Aside from the increases in operating expenses, the department has coming due this December a note in the amount of $15,000 plus interest.
This money was borrowed to help pay for a $43,000 ambulance which the department purchased last year in order to bring advanced life support care to the Amissville community. While a majority of the cost of this ambulance was paid for by grants, the department still had to come up with $15,000 which it had to borrow. The department will refinance that loan and pay the interest out of the funds it is able to raise.
The department, in conjunction with the Women’s Auxiliary, conducts numerous activities in an attempt to raise fluids. Between now and January
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