Mark Hardin’s heart sank when he saw the balance in his town’s volunteer fire department bank account last month: $169. The Calhoun, Missouri, fire department was in desperate need of new equipment and had been using the same equipment since the 1980s.
“It was pretty discouraging — we had already paid out of our own pockets to keep things moving,” said Hardin, a retired Arkansas firefighter who is now chief of the Calhoun Volunteer Fire Department, which has about 5oo inhabitants. .
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