Article Out Loud – What Volunteers Mean to Emergency Management Budgets

This is an article by Keith Mumaw, an Article Out Loud from Domestic Preparedness, September 17, 2025.Driven by a sense of humanity, volunteers are invaluable to emergency efforts. But they are essential to emergency management in more ways than one. Learn how the hours they donate and the costs they absorb by covering their own expenses positively affect the bottom line of budget-strapped emergency management departments. Now to the featured article.