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Technically I work on a volunteer service right now. Its kinda messed up how it works. Our service covers a rural county that has about 20,000 people in it but its a 32 mile by 30 mile county so its fairly large. We have a small hospital located centrally within our county where they employ the ALS paid side of our county ems service. Then within the towns in the county we have "volunteer" BLS units. When I say volunteer though I say it loosely because we only volunteer our call time so if the rig never goes out noone get paid. However, if we are dispatched to a call we get paid $12 an hour for every hour that we are out on that run. I guess it works out because its more or less an incentive for people to volunteer their time, but it definitely takes away from really being volunteer.