The Layton Volunteer Fire Department, with more than a half-century of history in the tiny Long Key community around mile marker 68.5, will soon become history.
“We’re just running out of people, especially younger people,” said Philip “Skip” Haring, Layton city administrator and lieutenant of the volunteer department that formed in the late 1950s.
Monroe County commissioners, meeting Wednesday in Marathon, will be asked to formally approve turning Layton’s volunteer fire operations over to Monroe County Fire Rescue.
Last July, the eight active members of Layton’s volunteer department voted, 6-2, to dissolve their corporation effective May 1.