Volunteer Stories

Sometimes a fraction of a second is enough to ruin someone's life. Jim found out about it the hard way when, as a result of a stupid accident on a motorcycle, he broke his leg in several places and faced a long hospitalization. He was supposed to regain full fitness, but no one would give him back the time he lost. The stay in the hospital mainly consisted of long bed rest with an immobilized leg and difficult rehabilitat...

I joined a rural volunteer fire station in NW Arkansas about a year and a half ago. I’m one of the only women on the department. My main goals were to help my community, stay fit, learn something new, and to also do what most of the men on the department did; get away from the spouse and kids for a while.  Last month Jake, a new member, joined our small volunteer department. He was a career firefighter in the next town ov...