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Volunteer Emergency Services: Filling Gaps or Creating Risk?
“What happens when the responders are unpaid?”
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A volunteer firefighter responds to a structure fire in his small town, the same people he coaches in little league or sees at church now depending on him to save their home, the intimacy of small community making every call personal in ways that urban responders never experience. A volunteer EMT provides the only emergency medical response in a remote area, her training basic compared to urban paramedics but her presence the difference between some response and none at all.

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