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[sweetapogee]

can tell you don't know how fire and EMS is funded in PA. It defies explanation but that is the way it is and the state is not going to change it anytime soon.

Keith McCall by the way is at the state level one of if not the most powerful elected officials out there. He is from a long time PA political family. It is of course your right to disagree with him but you shouldn't discount him especially since your not up to speed with emergency funding in the commonwealth. I could give example after example of local governments that spend less than $3000.00 per year on fire protection. This is a state that has 10 volunteer firefighters for every paid ff. I don't think there is a single paid company that responds to emergencies on the turnpike, I'm sure there are none on the NE extension. If it were not for fireman's relief, 100s of fire companies would have no PPE for the men to wear!

EMS is a little better funded but not because of state grants, rather it lives on subscriptions from members.