www.meredithfire.org has a large and archirtectually impressive main fire station on Route 3, across from Lake Winnipesaukee, that was built about four years ago, and while it does have sleeping & eating facility upstairs for fire-fighters, Meredith has an on-call fire-fighter system what with only the chief being a full-time, paid fire-fighter.
All around central NH and the lakes region, it is pretty standard, I believe , for most towns to have an on-call fire-fighter system, and it has been this way for many many years.
Similarly, did you know that here in New Hampshire, local citizens who get called to jury duty for a jury trial only get paid five dollars per day for each day of the trial. That is correct, as far as I know, just five dollars per day....how would you like get go sit on some big long criminal case like the Stacey Burns-Wolfeboro-2009 murder or something, and get just five dollars per day for jury duty?