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“No community should have to endure a tragedy like the devastating fire that displaced 90 residents many of them children and destroyed historic buildings in Oxford,” said U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA).
In Illinois, about two-thirds of the state’s roughly 1,100 fire departments rely almost entirely on volunteers. And, with few exceptions, those departments are running out of volunteers.