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The Boston Fire Department was established as the first paid fire department in the United States, and is the largest municipal fire department in New England serving approximately 685,000 people living in the 48.4-square-mile (125 km 2) area of the city proper. Additionally, it actively participates in MetroFire, the fire services mutual aid ...
New Dimension vehicles of Avon Fire and Rescue Service. The New Dimension programme, sometimes referred to as the New Dimension or New Dimensions, was started by the Department for Communities and Local Government in the UK, for fire and rescue services in England and Wales, following the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States.
Massport has its own fire department, and its Crash Fire Rescue organization provides protection on agency property. [3] Fire departments have mutual aid agreements, such as the Massachusetts Metro Fire District in Greater Boston, which facilitate emergency response across department boundaries. [4]
Discussions to consolidate the North Hudson fire departments began in the early 1980s. [5] The North Hudson Regional Fire and Rescue (NHRFR) was established on January 11, 1999. The former fire departments of North Bergen, Union City, Weehawken, West New York, and Guttenberg were merged to provide a safer, more efficient fire department. A ...
The Leary Firefighters Foundation, which only gives out 15 grants per year, was founded by actor and comedian Denis Leary in 2000 after the death of his cousin in a New England fire.
Foster Parrots keeps about 400 birds at its New England Exotic Wildlife Sanctuary, primarily birds that have medical conditions or that won't do well in homes, but a fire at the sanctuary in 2021 ...
TWFRS Volvo appliances outside Gateshead fire station in 2018. Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service, formerly known as the Tyne and Wear Metropolitan Fire Brigade, is the fire and rescue service (FRS) for the metropolitan boroughs of Newcastle Upon Tyne, Gateshead, North Tyneside, South Tyneside and Sunderland, serving a population of 1.14 million people across an area of 208 square miles ...
Prior to the Fire Services Act 2004 many fire and rescue authorities were known as fire and civil defence authorities; this designation is no longer used. A combined fire authority (CFA) is one created by a statutory instrument to cover more than one local authority area. Usually each of the constituent local authorities appoints a fixed number ...