Abstract
Especially last year demonstrated that the compensation for voluntary firefighters who suffer an injury is entirely inadequate and requires changes in order to be able to provide for occupational safety and health of firefighters who diligently, voluntarily and constantly expose their health to hazards in order to rescue people at risk. Given the analysis of legislation and decision-making practice we have carried out, the most appropriate way seems to be to define within the relevant legislation that volunteer firefighters are those who do not undergo training nor are deployed as municipal employees, but rather they are those who consistently act as volunteer firefighters performing this activity free of charge; in this case, the state is obliged to provide compensation for the damage they suffer as if they had suffered it in their main employment where they earn their living.