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required to undergo hundreds of hours of training, and use approved vehicles that fulfill extensive regulations. Very real liability concerns and rising insurance costs mean that no fire and rescue company can afford to just let anybody who wants to help drive an ambulance or anchor a hose.
“It’s like day and night. We didn’t need any training, and we’d ride to fires on the sides of the fire truck,” said Woodward, who joined the CCVFC as a teenager. “It was more fun,but it’s probably for the best,” admitted Woodward finally. Less regulations, less lawsuits , and while riding to a fire clinging to the bumper of a speeding firetruck does sound fun, some of the truths about the old days of volunteer fire and rescue in Rappahannock are a little more sobering.
“I have hauled people to the
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