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Re:Could housing be cheaper and better if we stop building s... by bluGill on Saturday December 25, 2021 @06:01AM (#29682229)
Volunteer firefighters live in rural areas and mostly serve farm and shall towns. Every suburb I've lived in has full time firefighters. Most people live in cities and suburbs not rural areas.
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Re:Could housing be cheaper and better if we stop building s... by kube-system on Saturday December 25, 2021 @07:42AM (#29682809)
There are about as many people in rural areas with volunteer fire departments as there are people in non-rural areas with volunteer fire departments.

17% of the US lives in a rural area. 32% of the US population is covered by a volunteer fire department. There are plenty of suburbs with VFDs, often lower-income.

https://www.nfpa.org/News-and-Research/Data-research-and-too...

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