
The result when a small town’s volunteer firefighters commute to jobs 20+ miles away, and a fire breaks out during the workday; St Croix Falls WI, June 2012.
The result when a small town’s volunteer firefighters commute to jobs 20+ miles away, and a fire breaks out during the workday; St Croix Falls WI, June 2012.
We lost a barn that way once…
It was especially awful when the only guy who knew how to work the pumper truck was last to arrive.
Oh, wow…
Oh Such a tragedy……….. We went from a town where response times were minutes to a town where a fire could finish a house before the tankers arrived……yikes