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Victoria Young CONCORD — As Chief Tracy Mosely was setting up the North Carolina Association of Fire Chiefs Conference Wednesday afternoon, he took a minute to talk about the lack of firefighters in the state and the growing need for volunteer firefighters. In North Carolina about 62.8 percent of fire departments are fully volunteer and 28.2 percent are mostly volunteer. That means about 91 percent of the state s fire departments heavily rely on volunteer firefighters. And while the state has lost about 600 firefighters a year since 2016 from things like burnout or career changes, fire departments are in dire need of support.  Losing that many firefighters a year brings down department manpower to dangerously low numbers. And that puts communities and firefighters in danger. 

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