Kansas Volunteer Firefighters Face Shortage

Kansas depends heavily on volunteer firefighters. Of the 499 fire departments statewide, 90 percent are volunteer or mostly volunteer. But chiefs say recruiting and keeping volunteers is harder than ever.Nationally, volunteer firefighters have dropped from nearly 900,000 in 1984 to 676,900 in 2020. In Kansas, finding new members is a ...

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