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This is a list of fire departments in the world. A fire department or fire brigade also known as a fire and rescue service or fire service is a public or private organization that provides firefighting, rescue and emergency medical services for a certain jurisdiction, which is typically a municipality, county or fire protection district.
The World Firefighter Games is an international sporting event that welcomes all full-time, part-time and volunteer structural firefighters and bush firefighters, and aviation fire services and military emergency response personnel and their immediate direct family from all across the globe.
The stations are assigned to 9 district operations units. On Friday September 3, 2010, Chief deHooge announced that a three-year trial testing the use of 24-hour shift rotations would begin in January 2011. In Canada twelve of the fifteen largest fire departments are using the 24-hour shift rotation.
The International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) is a labor union representing paid full-time firefighters and emergency medical services personnel in the United States and Canada. The IAFF was formed in 1918 and is affiliated with the AFL–CIO in the United States and the Canadian Labour Congress in Canada.
Astoria Fire House No. 2, Astoria, OR, NRHP-listed, now the Uppertown Firefighter's Museum; Grants Pass City Hall and Fire Station, Grants Pass, OR, NRHP-listed; Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center (1910), North Portland, OR; Portland Fire Station No. 7 (1927), Portland, OR, NRHP-listed; Portland Fire Station No. 17, Portland, OR, NRHP-listed
Canada is wrestling with its worst-ever start to wildfire season, but recruiting firefighters is becoming increasingly difficult due to tight labor markets and the tough nature of the job ...
Fire stations in Canada (1 C, 2 P) Fireboats of Canada (2 C, 11 P) ... Ontario Firefighters Memorial; U. Upper Hammonds Plains Volunteer Fire Department
Edmonton Fire Rescue Services (also Edmonton Fire and Rescue Services) is the fire department for the city of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The Edmonton Fire Department began as a volunteer fire corps in 1891 and the first full department was created in 1906.