In the United States, 70% of firefighters are volunteers. In most communities, they make up the entire department. They’re people you pass in the grocery store, standing beside you one day and answering your call for help the next.

But their ranks are shrinking, and too few people are stepping forward to replace them.

Sullivan Fire goes inside rural firehouses in New York’s Catskill Mountains, where a dwindling force of volunteers answers every alarm. As an aging generation prepares to step aside, teenagers and young adults step forward, training for emergencies, confronting fear, and finding purpose in life.

At a crossroads for volunteer firefighting nationwide, Sullivan Fire captures the ordinary people sustaining a fragile public safety system and asks what we’re willing to sacrifice to serve our communities.

We can be heroes.

Sullivan Fire is directed by Chris Ramirez, a New York-based documentary filmmaker and active volunteer firefighter, whose dual role puts him both behind the camera and inside the firehouse, giving him rare access to the people, emergencies, and culture at the center of the story.

“Our goal is to remind people of the value of civic service and caring for one another,” Ramirez said. “By bringing audiences into the rarely seen world of volunteer firefighting, we hope to help people discover their own capacity to serve, and find a deeper sense of purpose in their lives.”

Your support for Sullivan Fire will bring the film to audiences through festivals, educational screenings, and community partnerships, sparking honest conversations about the future of the volunteer fire service and the purpose we find in helping others.

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