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Old May 25, 2010, 06:21 AM   #18
BlueTrain
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I don't want to talk too much about the fire department, seeing as how this is a guns forum, but there are all sorts of variations in the organization of fire departments. In Northern Virginia, there are stations that are are staffed partly by paid firemen, or fire fighters, as the term is now, and some that are entirely volunteer. I know of one near Charlestown, West virginia, that has a big sign on their building that said "Strictly Volunteer." And that is clear enough.

There is some variation in police departments. The police in the town where I went to college utilized a police reserve for days when there was a home football game and the town was packed with people. You could tell them because their uniforms were cut in a slightly old fashioned way. But I never hear of a police reserve around here (Northern Virginia) ever mentioned in the paper, yet I think there is one. They tend to be around when the police department has an open house.

You think we could buy patrol cars and pistols with bake sales?
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