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Whether the department is made of career members, volunteers or a combination of both. commissioner The name of the commissioner of the department. (Not all departments have a fire commissioner.) chief The name of the fire chief for the department. captain The name of the fire captain for the department. (Not all departments have a fire captain.
On April 1, 1853, the Cincinnati Fire Department became the first full-time paid career fire department in the United States, and the first in the world to use steam fire engines. [9] The first horse-drawn steam engine for fighting fires was invented in England in 1829, but it was not accepted in structural firefighting until 1860. It continued ...
Fire departments may also have unsworn or non-uniformed members in non-firefighting capacities such as administration and civilian oversight, e.g., a board of commissioners. While adhering to a paramilitary command structure, most fire departments operate on a much less formal basis than the military.
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Those generic-looking badges had been in use since the 1950s, the department said in a statement. “(The old badge) could be any other police agency. That is a very standard badge design.
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