Fire/Rescue/Marine, EMS went paid 10 years ago or so. We have been asked - many times - to run QRS with an EMT, we've turned it down - nobody has time for the 4,552 hours a year of training for that.

We need only $120,000 to $130,000 to operate, and I already found $10,000 I can save next year on a variety of things, by the time I get it all worked out, I expect to get the operating budget down to about $105,000. $31,000 of that is insurance, and that's NOT going down...We're bulk buying fuel and we're legally allowed to burn whatever the hell we want in our trucks without most of the taxes.

But in the end, we spend 80% of our time on fundraising, 15% on administration (more in my case) and only 5% on emergency services. We're beyond "somethings gotta give" and we're at "looking for ways to roll the trucks at all".