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Illinois is running out of volunteer firefighters: 'It's going to become very critical, very shortly'

DALZELL, Ill. — The 76-year-old man was sitting at his kitchen table one Tuesday morning in June when he lost consciousness and fell to the floor. A few blocks away, Alex Justi’s emergency pager went off. The 24-year-old firefighter and paramedic is one of only six people who make up Dalzell’s volunteer-run fire department, and one of only two who lives in the town of about 660 residents in . ....

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Transcripts for FOXNEWS Cavuto Live 20211211 16:25:00

Counties have sent ambulance crews to mayfield to assist us. i can t say thank you enough for the help that we ve received. everywhere from our neighboring counties to vanderbilt, the kentucky board of e.m.s. has allocated we hope additional eight ambulances from all over the state of kentucky to come in and assist us. i want to thank air vac. for patients and staff from others to assist us on ground operations. overnight we had four structure fires, very difficult to get to the fires. once we did with the help of our volunteer departments in the county, we were able to get each of those extinguished and ....

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