Talk:Volunteer fire department

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I am a career firefighter in Il. I am looking for the history of the red and greenlights on fire apparatus and fire stations. who, where, why and when? Can you help? write me at kevinbewley@sbcglobal.net thanks for your help  do you know what  2q2+2= how about ~pxr2= are you an engineer? please respond.

Dues vs Tax Based
I came to the article hoping to find some details on the history of tax-funded versus dues-funded Volunteer Fire Departments, after seeing discussion on an incident where a rural Missouri fire department refused to fight a fire because the property owner wasn't paid up. I have found in searches that the practice of funding by dues has been going on for some time, but I was hoping someone could shed more light on its history.

--Robotech_Master 20:23, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

National perspective
Yo, I may be mistaken, but most of this article seems to present a phenomenon in the United States as if it is global. It needs to be rewritten to specify when we're talking about a system in the U.S. or when a foreign system is being discussed. 07:55, 18 April 2006 (UTC) Agreed. There is not even a needed mention of the Rural fire service in New South Wales, Australia, even though it is recognised as the largest volunteer fire service in the world.

Our 70000 volunteer members provide emergency services to over 95 per cent of NSW. ... The NSW Rural Fire Service, the world's largest fire service. ... Social Media users can follow Major Fire Updates from the NSW RFS on: ... www.bushfire.nsw.gov.au/ ( google: largest volunteer fire service rfs ) 203.51.66.15 (talk) 11:29, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
 * WP:SOFIXIT--please, feel free to add appropriate information from other countries. I'm sitting here in the USA, and VFD's are quite variable from county to county and state to state. Jclemens (talk) 22:40, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

United Kingdom
I edited to change "no" to "almost no" as there is at least one in Britain: the Peterborough Volunteer Fire Brigade. 81.158.2.226 15:07, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Johnston Press killed that link, but see Peterborough Volunteer Fire Brigade ! Just the one ... --195.137.93.171 (talk) 17:16, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

The entire UK section needs rewriting badly. The language is horrible. --195.80.134.154 (talk) 02:50, 20 November 2016 (UTC)

Split?
As noted above, much of this article reflects the situation in the USA, not globally. Can I suggest that the article be split, with a new article on volunteer fire departments in the US (and maybe also one for Australia), leaving a summary and main article link in those country sections here, and to re-write the rest of the article in a more general form. Any thoughts? Swanny18 (talk) 22:08, 30 December 2016 (UTC)

Note about Victoria, Australia numbers
The MFB and CFA have become amalgamated into the Fire Rescue Victoria. Please update accordingly. Anthony 1l (talk) 21:40, 2 November 2021 (UTC)