Supervisors from Tunnelhill Borough, Gallitzin Township, and Gallitzin Borough all agree their volunteer fire departments should be called out to all car accidents just in case.

"The supervisors received a letter back from the 911 Center stating that they follow a national protocol and that they were not going to do this," said Gallitzin Fire Chief Jim Nagle.

Cambria County's 911 director of Emergency Services said right in the letter, "If the caller says there are no injuries, only police are to be dispatched. If there are injuries, wires down, entrapment, or hazardous materials on scene, fire, EMS, and the police will all be called out."

The 30 volunteers of the Gallitzin Fire Company realize they're short staffed, but so is their local police departments, leaving them worried, if it's not a life or death situation, State Police may be delayed arriving on scene.

Nagle said, "How do you know it's anything until you arrive on the scene? Every call we get is like that. We could get called to smoke in a structure and it ends up being just food on a stove. That's why we're here, that's why we signed up to do this job."