A four-year, $168,000 federal grant that funds recruitment and training for Clallam County Fire District 2 volunteer firefighters ends May 3, Chief Sam Phillips said Tuesday.
Phillips issued a plea for volunteers at the Port Angeles Business Association breakfast meeting attended by 30 participants.
The district has 44-48 volunteers and nine full-time employees, including six firefighter-paramedics, Phillips said.
“We need 60, consistently, or more,” he said.
The 85-square mile area covered by District 2 has 9,500 residents and stretches from Deer Park just east of Port Angeles, wraps around the city, and west to Lake Crescent.