With a declining number of volunteer fire fighters, the Millcreek Fire and Emergency Service Commission has recommended the creation of a Private Non-Profit Department.
The Millcreek Fire and Emergency Service Commission has been working on several options to fix the growing issue of not enough people volunteering to be fire fighters. The Commission has developed five different options, including paid non-profit departments, half volunteer and half paid, and maintaining the current volunteer fire departments.
“What we have today isn’t working,” said Millcreek Fire and Emergency Service Commission Chairman Randy Lechowski. “A lack of volunteers. We have dedicated fire fighters, just not enough of them.”
The selected recommendation is to create a private hybrid non-profit organization, ultimately consolidating fire departments into one entity.