Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by robbie sledge on July 18, 2009 at 7:41am

we have a good bit. i cant remember all of them but the ones i do remember are lexington (were i volunteer), redbank, oakgrove, gilbert, pilion, lake murray, pine grove, and chapin. i think theres a few others but thats all i can remember haha

unless i totaly miss understood what you ment by that then this was a waist of time haha but thats the stations in our county.

Permalink Reply by Andrew Dalgarno on July 18, 2009 at 8:18am

Our area is primarily farmland, so the population is pretty spread out, but our department has 2 stations covering approximately 280 square miles.

The Mutual Aid District we are a part of covers approximately 1400 square miles and half of a federal park. The District consists of 8 departments (9 stations). I'll take a stab at the apparatus list, but I may miss something:

Pumpers 10
Tankers 4
Combination Pumper/Tanker 3
Tech Rescue 7
Foam Unit 1
Brush Truck 3

The majority of our fires are grass fires (60%), another 30% in vehicle accidents and the remaining 10% is everything from structure fires and false alarms to SAR and medical assists.

By the way, I like your last name - I am on the Harrison Fire Dept!

Permalink Reply by Tristem Murphree on July 24, 2009 at 12:24am

My fire district has two stations. We run a total of 9 units. 1 tanker, 2 tanker pumpers, 2 pumpers, 3 rescues and 1 service unit. We are expecting a fire/rescue boat by the summer of 2010.

Permalink Reply by chris jarvis on July 24, 2009 at 11:56pm

we have 8 dept. in the county, everyone seems to work well together, some dept. are bigger than others with diff. opinions but when bad things happen were all on the same page!

Permalink Reply by Anthony on August 2, 2009 at 12:40am

The dept i was on only had 1 station but there were like 4 other towns within 10 mins if need be. and as far as the "out do"thing I don't understand that either. My dept was alwayse the butt of all the other depts jokes and what not wich obviously ticked my guys off and the other bigger depts were alwayse trying to take controll when theye were called for help. Me personally I don't care what dept a person is from or what "politics" are involved in the relationship between my dept and theres if I am on the same scene as them were all the same. I have alwayse disagreed with the petty bickering between depts and the "station politics" im tnere to help people and put the wet stuff on the hot things or whatever needs fixed. Im not there to play the "buddy game" and "show them up" or whatever.

Permalink Reply by Sven Schrage on March 31, 2010 at 4:57pm

We belong to the Department City of Hamburg ( Germany).
In this Department we have :

17 Fire and Rescue (Paramedic) Stations Paid Firefighters (
1 Station Paid Technical Station (Hazard, ABC, etc.)
2 Fire Boot Stations (each belongs to one Fire and Rescue Station)
87 Fire Stations (Voluntary)

together more than 5000 Women and man, both Voluntarys and Paid

Mostly each Voluntary Station has 1 or 2 Pumper and one special Unit.......
The Special Unit in our Station , where i'm the deputy Chief, is a Technical Rescue.
In our direct area we have a population of apro. 35000 People, Highway and Railroads
In the wider Area two Arena's (Soccer and Hockey) with together up to nearly 70000 People.
As voluntarys we support the Paid Firefighters in greater Fires or accidents. But work also alone in lower Fires
(eg. Wastcontainers) or technicals like Storm damages.
Another Job is being Part of the local civil protection while High Waterfrom River Elbe or upcoming from the north Sea, we are part of the dam-protection...............
We go out for 140 to 200 alarms per year..... fortunately only 24 till now, but the year is young.........

see also :
www.hamburg.de/feuerwehr (paid/voluntary)
www.feuerwehr-hamburg.de (voluntary only)

Permalink Reply by Marty Hrinko on May 5, 2010 at 8:51am

Olyphant, PA has 5 Fire Houses:
* Excelsior Hose Company # 1 has 1 KME Pumper Rescue(not in service yet), A very small rescue, our old pumper, and two 5 ton brush trucks.
*Engine and Hose #2 has a Crimson Pumper.
*Eureka Hose Company #4 has a Ferrara Pumper Rescue.
*Liberty Hose Company #6 has an American LaFrance Pumper
*Queen City Hose Company #8 has a crimson pumper.

Permalink Reply by Davin Eshelman on May 5, 2010 at 1:50pm

Where I volunteer at, we have 1 department. 2 Engines 1 Ladder 2 Rescues 1 Tender 1 Bursh truck. The dept to the west has 2 departments. Avon and East Avon.

Permalink Reply by Forsaken Firefighter on May 6, 2010 at 7:59pm

Our county has 9 dept. and 10 station.

Permalink Reply by Edward Stephens on July 13, 2010 at 2:23pm

I know what you meane, we have 1 dep with 4 close by .we have worked togather.but at the same time avery buddy think they are better and thate makes it hard some times.we have one dep in the middle of us all and they do get a lot more runs then the rest of us so they think threy god gift and the rest of is just ther.