soon be in the same boat. a number of factors got us here but the biggest one generational decline in volunteerism and it doesn't come down to millennials not wanting to work but a big part of it loss of sense of community. study by the fire council, people have many transient lifestyles, not living in the communities they work in often because they can't afford to and most people living in multiple jobs and those jobs often have inflexible schedules, millennials have more debts than previous generations making unpaid volunteer work unaffordable but as volunteer numbers shrink, population has increased and fires are burning more dangerously than ever before, the cost of training firefighters has gone up with federal training standards. >> we have to train a little bit harder. when i joined the fire department the essential's class was probably only 30 hours long,