Will Volunteer Fire Departments Survive This Blaze?

If President-elect Trump — and Elon Musk — want to cut regulations, here’s one place he could start.

New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection via AP
This image provided by New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection shows the wildfire at Jennings Creek, New Jersey, November 9, 2024. New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection via AP

Imagine how you’d feel if your house catches fire and you call the local volunteer fire department and no one is volunteering. That’s what could yet happen if the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s latest proposed regulations go into effect. They are meeting a backlash from volunteer firefighters, who fear the proposed rules will lead to a closing fire departments and spark a “mass exodus” of volunteers.

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