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Do City firefighters fight Wildland fires?

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Permalink Reply by Cody Baker on March 19, 2009 at 12:43am

Our City Firefighters do...

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Permalink Reply by Fireyladd - Retired Chief Sharp on March 19, 2009 at 12:45am

The name implies we fight fire period. However, some do not I would imagine.

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Permalink Reply by Joey on March 19, 2009 at 12:47am

ya thats what i thought

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Permalink Reply by Tony P on March 19, 2009 at 4:40am

Your question can't be answered with a 'yes' or 'no' really. There are many city based firefighters around the world who are close enough to wildfire risk areas that their assistance is required. There are many city based firefighters who would never see a real wildfire, the closest they get might be a small grassfire in parkland. By saying 'small grassfire' I'm not denigrating their efforts, the risk is still there. But it's a totally different thing to a major wildfire. As is fighting a fire in a single storey home vastly different to fighting one in a huge multi-storey development, the sort of thing that big city firefighters can expect at any time.

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Permalink Reply by Raymond Delacruz on March 19, 2009 at 9:49am

well i guess in the near future we will they have just extended our fir academy and added wild fire besides the regular stuff

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Permalink Reply by Dennis Brown on March 19, 2009 at 10:59am

Some do some dont

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Permalink Reply by John on March 19, 2009 at 11:35am

We do. We had a few of are members volli to go to Cal. to fight the fires there, and were in delaware. Gotta love brotherhood!

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Permalink Reply by Art "ChiefReason" Goodrich on March 19, 2009 at 12:39pm

Are you talking wildland fires in the classical sense or are you talking about vegetation fires?
And why has wildland firefighting become such a hot, bad ass topic all of a sudden?
Are we running out of stuff to talk about?
I mean; does the essence of what we do come down to "smelly boots"?
Then, I for one, will be taking a break.
TCSS.
Art

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Permalink Reply by Doug on March 19, 2009 at 12:49pm

Even NYC firefighters fight brush and wildland fires. They actually had a pretty major one a few years ago that went to several alarms.

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Permalink Reply by John on March 19, 2009 at 1:43pm

Guess it depends on where you are at we all fight fire.

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Permalink Reply by Tony P on March 19, 2009 at 5:52pm

Come on Art, give the kid a break. I agree that there are many threads that exist solely to gain the OP points on the board, the two you alluded to are cases in point. However young Joey hasn't even started to become a firefighter yet, he just had a question. Of course if subsequent posters take the thread to a mine-is-bigger-than-yours type of thing then that's another matter.