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Rescue squad is experimenting with what its president Monica Worth calls “response reimbursement,” payments for completing calls.
Worth who is a member of the associations study committee said “many volunteers spend hundreds of hours a year in the fire and rescue work and you have to tell people we recognize what a commitment this is.”
But Atkins said with 400 calls a year, Amissville simply cannot afford significant call payments.
Ann Spieker, who heads Washington’s Volunteer Fire Department and Rescue Squad, is well known for recruiting and retaining volunteers. She says, “You have to give volunteers something to do. Everybody gets to do something. They have to make calls, to feel like their doing something important.”
Spieker said her company has some 20 people out of 35 who make calls regularly, and “We’ve got a lot on calls even coming out in the middle of the night.” She said the young volunteers are the best recruiters, and bring in others.
“Times have changed a lot,” Atkins argues.
When he was a youngster being
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