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say are crucial if the volunteer system is to be saved.
Although a number of problems were raised in the two-hour meeting, the major one was recruitment. Fire and rescue companies, particularly in rural areas, are finding it harder to recruit enough volunteers to respond to daytime calls, volunteers told the board.
If the county does not help them by providing incentives to attract volunteers, they said, the whole system may slowly collapse, replaced by a paid system.
“We need something right now. We can’t wait for the retirement system,” said Joyce Cavaniss, of the Loudoun County Volunteer Rescue Squad. “If we want to retain the volunteer system, we need something right now.”
The county is currently working on a proposal for a retirement system for volunteers, but Cavaniss and others said that isn’t the immediate answer.
Fred Gansel, of the Sterling Volunteer Rescue Squad, said the retirement plan would help “retain existing members,” but won’t bring in new ones.
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