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Volunteer fire companies and EMS training program push for budget changes and fleet funding
Summary
Volunteer leaders and county volunteers urged Baltimore County leaders to increase funding for volunteer apparatus, ease loan requirements for ladder truck purchases, and revive a high school emergency services training program that produces certified EMTs and firefighters.
Volunteer fire and emergency service representatives used the District 4 budget town hall to press officials for near‑term funding changes and program restoration to address falling volunteer ranks and aging apparatus.
Daniel Bollinger, president of the Glendon Volunteer Fire Department and a retired Baltimore County firefighter, said his department recently signed a contract to replace a 28‑year‑old ladder truck and asked county leaders to reduce a required down payment for the Baltimore County Volunteer Firefighters Association loan fund from 25% to 20% to ease the local match for volunteer companies. Bollinger said the loan…
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