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The sad part out of your entire rational for your comment triemal04 is that "those poor representatives" are more often than not from a PAID service. I'm not jumping in to the paid vs volley debate because it has been going on for decades and will continue to go on for decades to come. Until community governments and leaders realize they cannot feed off the backs of a few dedicated people who provide lifesaving services in their area "for free," and until those few who are providing the "free" services realize that their community has enough money to pay for waste removal and other essential services, there will be volunteer EMS services across the nation and the "paid" vs "volley" debate will continue......... One thing to remember tho, nothing is ever "free" in this world. Someone, whether it be the volunteer that never gets to lay down the pager and spend time with their family and eventually loses their family, or whether it be the paid EMT that had to respond to a call 38 miles away to a pediatric drowning in a town with no "local volunteer" services and no treatment being done who has to live with that call reverberating around in their head.....someone always sacrifices something....