The Bradley-Prosperity Volunteer Fire Department has raised the $50,000 needed for its worker's compensation insurance premium and will dodge the threat of being shuttered for the second year, according to The Register-Herald.Public officials said last week the volunteer agency could be forced to shutter on July 1 if the bill was not paid. Raleigh County voters recently had approved a new fire tax that officials said would help the volunteer agency meet its workers' compensation insurance requirements in the coming months and years, but revenues from the new tax weren't expected to...
Comments