Did you know:

• The Springdale Volunteer Fire Company has not filed any NFIRS (National Fire Incident Reporting System) since sometime before 2003?
• Membership rosters of volunteer departments often include the names of veteran, life and otherwise inactive members
• FSLA rules will prevent the career staff from participating in the “Volunteer Department” when not on duty.
  “Employees may not “volunteer” to do similar work for the same employer without the time being counted as FLSA work time. Firefighters may not perform “additional” fire related activities for their employers without that time being included as hours worked for FLSA pay computation purposes. Also, employees who work “two jobs” for the same employer must aggregate their total hours worked for FLSA pay purposes. For example, a fire fighter who works 40 hours as a firefighter and an additional 20 hours as an animal control officer has a total of 60 FLSA hours worked. Employees are permitted to work “moonlighting” jobs — for separate employers — without the hours being aggregated. Employees may sometimes work for “joint employers,” such as when they are assigned to a “task force.” In such cases, each employer is equally liable to be sure FLSA wages are paid properly.”
  http://www.flsa.com/fire.html