Madison Fire Department is a municipal combination volunteer/paid per call fire department supplemented by part-time paid staff located in Madison, North Carolina which is located approximately 20 miles north of Greensboro in Rockingham County. The department is fire tax funded and is governed by the...
I started out as a volunteer firefighter with a small-town Volunteer Fire Department, the kind of place where the firehouse doors were always open, and every call was answered by someone you knew. The pager on my hip became an extension of me, its shrill tone snapping me to attention at...
"If we get a big fire, like a house fire that we can't control with handlines, we can darken it down with that,"Doug Mchose, of the Bayleaf Volunteer Fire Department, said. "We can use that on it for a couple of minutes to knock it down to where we can get in there." The ...
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This shift in demand presents a dilemma. Trimming staff to what is needed for the more frequent EMS responses will cut fire department costs. With too few firefighters on duty, however, the structure fires that do occur are more likely to claim lives and spread to other buildings. ...
Toronto Fire Services can trace its history back to 1874, when it was known as the Toronto Fire Department. Today, Toronto Fire Services operates out of 83 stations around the city and responds to over 100,000 calls annually. Fire engines are a familiar sight on our city streets. Toronto ...
The family man can often be found at the fire department with his 5-year-old helping to wash the ambulance, his 14-year-old son helping to get fire trucks back in service after a call, or with his 15-year-old daughter on take your child to work day. She was able to ride along ...
With all that being said, be sure to give him a warm welcome and a congratulations for this awesome achievement. We are all extremely excited for the future of DiamondFire, and as a more structured administration with jobs in more areas, this gives us a strong footing to keep guiding the...
"I don't have that in me," he said. "The people that do it are special." He said his dad and Skaggs fell to their deaths "trying to make the department better." "We take it for granted every day," he said, of what volunteer firefighters do. "In my mind, they should be looke...
Currently the Department of Homeland Security has discretion to detain only undocumented immigrants accused of serious crimes, like rape, domestic violence, murder and some drug offenses. The bill would institute a mandatory requirement to detain those charged with smaller c...