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Originally Posted by Coolbreeze
Well said Canis, your theory is happening through out the country. You are correct regarding the volunteers except, most volunteers are not getting tired of volunteering for the rescue work; just getting tired of the work soliciting funds to properly and legally do their volunteer work.
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I can identify with that. When I was in college I was part of the campus volunteer rescue squad which also had the 911 contracts for the surrounding towns. There was always discussion of 'how to fund our service' because our call volume kept going up while student volunteership was going down. Staffing the trucks was getting harder as students got busier and it always seemed to be the same volunteers from town (non-students) who ended up pulling duty. They got burnt out after a while.
What ended up happening was they separated from the campus so they could incorporate and start billing the patients. With the increased revenue they were able to pay crews for staffing the less-popular shifts.