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People dont volunteer as much,” said Burke. “The kids have nicer cars and gameboys and hanging around on the weekends rolling hose and keeping the engine up isn’t as exciting,” Carter said.
Burke who has been a volunteer since he was a teenager said that in the 1970s “there wasn’t anything else to do.”
Many of the new arrivals in Rappahannock come later in life, accustomed to paid fire departments, and neither physically nor emotionally ready for the rigors of fighting fires.
Jed Duvall, 66, a veteran former national television correspondent and producer lives in the county where he conducts freelance projects. Duvall is training to be a firefighter, what Carter calls part of our “Geritol crew,” who"are much appreciated, and can best be utilized driving the firetruck.
The county’s zoning, a long debated subject, impacts on the kind of people who move to Rappahannock. Carter said that young middle class families find it hard to buy a property with a minimum of 25 acres and a house and pay for it. But Burke said even the more populous counties like Fauquier and Culpeper have difficulty recruiting volunteers.
The answer some give is to hire paid firefighters. Burke, a county employee, said he doesn’t think the county can afford it, but acknowledges the issue becomes more pressing everyday.
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