It's kinda funny type "thank you volunteer firefighters" or many other things like this in google and see what comes up not a whole bunch. Well to be a volunteer firefighter takes a lot you must be a family with the other firefighters and work together. This at times with politics is hard to do. You must be able to leave your family to go to a call that could take hours and be a 3 in the morning. Your family must be willing to flex there time and what they do so you can be a fireman. Training and drill nights are constant things that you must do. On free time you are doing maintenance on the fire house. Than once all that is done there are the long hours of fund raisers bingo for example. These fund raisers are very important so the fire company can buy gear and vital equipment to fight fire and rescue people from accidents. Government funding is minimal at the least. It's just funny and very sad that there are people out there that do not know what a volunteer firefighter is or what they do. There is only 3% of Pennsylvania that is paid fire departments. So please next time you see a fireman say thank you. Next time you see a blue light pull over.