How often does your volunteer fire department ask for donations?

[Casey Ryback]

Originally Posted by greenpeas55

Can I ask respectfully what these donations go to? Obviously we pay taxes for our fire department, so do the donations really go to beer parties and events for the fire fighters? In Merrick, if you don't send in your check they come around on the fire trucks a few weeks later and ring your bell. They make a big scene with the fire alarms on so everyone knows who didn't donate.

Ha! Now this makes me not want to donate at all. Screw these meatheads !

[Pruzhany]

Originally Posted by VA Yankee

Another advantage of living out in the real world, Fire Departments are paid not volunteer so the annual collection for the beer fund is not needed.

Another advantage of living out in the real world is knowing that there are shortfalls in the yearly budgets and that the donations move up to timetable to fulfilling those needs rather than waiting years for them to be fulfilled by some future budget.

[Pruzhany]

Originally Posted by greenpeas55

Can I ask respectfully what these donations go to? Obviously we pay taxes for our fire department, so do the donations really go to beer parties and events for the fire fighters? In Merrick, if you don't send in your check they come around on the fire trucks a few weeks later and ring your bell. They make a big scene with the fire alarms on so everyone knows who didn't donate.

Then Merrick's volley leaders have no clue to the waste of funds they are spending using a vehicle that averages 3 miles per gallon of diesel.