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2. Volunteer fire department - Wikipedia

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   A volunteer fire department (VFD) is a fire department of volunteers who perform fire suppression and other related emergency services for a local jurisdiction. Volunteer and retained (on-call) firefighters are expected to be on call to respond to emergency calls for long periods of time, and are summoned to the fire station when their services ...

3. Firefighting in the United States - Wikipedia

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   A fire department responds to a fire every 23 seconds throughout the United States. [4] Fire departments responded to 26,959,000 calls for service in 2020. Of these, 64.2% were for medical help, 8% were false alarms, and 3.9% were for actual fires. [5]

4. Retained firefighter - Wikipedia

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   Whole-time firefighters attend training school for an initial period of 13–20 weeks, depending on the fire and rescue service they have joined. On-call firefighters now undertake the same training modules as full-time recruits, spread over a greater period of time due to full-time employment job commitments.

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6. Geography of firefighting - Wikipedia

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   As of 2007, some 4,527 volunteer fire departments, the back-bone of the Austrian fire service, relied on about 320,000 men and women voluntary firefighters as active members. [2] Fire departments exist in even the smallest Austrian villages, where they contribute to community life, usually by organizing fairs and other fund-raising activities.

7. Firefighter - Wikipedia

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   *Customer stabilization refers to customer service that fire departments provide during an emergency. When a fire department responds to an emergency, two related priorities are life safety and stabilizing the incident. Part of this process is ensuring the customer's well-being from the time of dispatch until after the incident becomes stable.

8. Milliron Foundation, Village of Plymouth partner on new fire ...

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   The Plymouth Fire Department is getting a new fire station thanks to a donation from the Grant Milliron Foundation. The current station at 20 Portner St. is dilapidated.

9. Former fire chief Kristin Crowley loses bid to get her job ...

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   The Los Angeles City Council rejected former Fire Chief Kristin Crowley’s bid to get her job back leading one of the nation’s largest fire departments, over fierce objections from the ...