Betty Reckards, a volunteer EMT/firefighter with the Rockwood Fire Department, stands inside a trailer with a specialized rescue sled in Rockwood. Because of the remote nature of the department and its coverage area, the sled is often necessary to move victims from accident scenes.

Betty Reckards, a volunteer EMT/firefighter with the Rockwood Fire Department, stands at the door of the specialized rescue trailer used in search and rescue in Rockwood.

Betty Reckards, a volunteer EMT/firefighter with the Rockwood Fire Department, talks on the radio from her rescue vehicle at the fire station in Rockwood.

Betty Reckards, a volunteer EMT/firefighter with the Rockwood fire department, sits inside a rescue vehicle in Rockwood.

Betty Reckards, a volunteer EMT/firefighter in Rockwood points to the rural coverage area on a map in Rockwood.

Betty Reckards, a volunteer EMT/firefighter with the Rockwood fire department, talks on the radio from her rescue vehicle at the fire station in Rockwood.

Rockwood EMT/firefighter Betty Reckards greets retired Cambridge, Mass., firefighter Rodger Johnson at the Rockwood Fire Station. Reckards says former and current firefighters often drop in to say hello. “Being a firefighter is a brotherhood,” says Reckards.