Help keep volunteer fire departments staffed and equipped
In many communities, the fire department is made up mostly or entirely of volunteers. They answer the call when budgets cannot pay for a full-time fire staff.
What volunteer fire departments do
- Fight structure, vehicle and wildland fires.
- Respond to medical emergencies, often arriving before an ambulance in rural areas.
- Rescue people from car crashes, water, and backcountry and other hard-to-reach places.
- Handle hazardous materials incidents, fallen power lines and storm damage.
- Teach fire prevention and wildfire readiness, and help neighbors prepare.
Why they need support
Many rural districts and small towns do not have the tax base to pay a full-time fire staff. Volunteers keep their stations open and their trucks rolling, but the department still has to recruit and train people, and buy and maintain protective gear, apparatus and equipment. When there are not enough volunteers, or the equipment is worn out, response times and safety suffer.
Become a statewide sponsor or donor
FireDepartment.net is looking for statewide donors and sponsors to help these fire departments keep adequate staffing and equipment. Support can fund a single department, a county, a whole state, or the entire program.
- Recognition: sponsors and donors are listed as sponsors on the programs they help fund, including the directory and recruitment pages for those departments, and on this page.
- How donations work: donations can be made through one of our nonprofit partners, acting as a fiscal sponsor or pass-through organization, which may make them tax-deductible. Ask your tax advisor how it applies to you.
- Who can sponsor: businesses, foundations, associations and agencies that want to support the communities they serve.
Our sponsors
Our first sponsors are coming on board now. Yours could be the first name here.
Businesses can also sponsor volunteer recruitment specifically. See corporate sponsorship.