What if you called to report a fire or other emergency and no one answered the call?

Did you know that nearly 80% of America’s fire service is volunteer?

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We often get asked on calls if we are volunteer.  Yes we are! The McGregor Volunteer Fire Department is virtually all volunteer which means that when we get a call, we stop family dinner, work, errands and often sleep to respond to our communities needs.

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Like everyone else, we are doing more with less these days.  We have more training requirements than ever before (almost 200 hours to become a certified firefighter), more paperwork (insurance, maintenance, and administration of the firehouse) and overall less time it seems.

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We are able to provide our exceptional service because our of dedicated volunteers: from respond to calls like our Firefighters, hold fundraising events with McGregor Fire Auxiliary to running our Administration through various committees and the Board of Directors.

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We can’t do it alone though.  We are looking for volunteers to answer the call.  We believe that every skill fulfills a need, whether you’re a chef who can help with our kitchen, CDL driver who can drive the trucks, lawyer or accountant that can help with the administration, marketing/social media gurus to get our message out or photographer to capture what we do – we can use you!

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For those of you who want to know what it’s like to be a volunteer Firefighter, come and visit us during our regularly scheduled training nights on Tuesdays @ 7pm