New fire trucks are expensive, and cost even more due to new regulations, so squads such as the Barnegat Light Volunteer Fire Co. reach out to the community, and it responds.
Help comes from several directions, even shirt by shirt and hat by hat as townspeople and vacationers snap up the latest fundraising apparel. Municipalities pitch in donations for the life- and property-saving service that is provided by an all-volunteer organization. Fewer and fewer towns nationwide can still say that.
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