OK i think I have the smallest department in the world perhaps we have 14 Firefighters, 2 lt, 1 Capt, 1 Ast. Chief, the chief and 3 cadets. Usaully we get maybe 3 firefighters to show for a call the 2 lts and the chief thats it! Who has the largest dept and do i have the smallest???
We run any where from 900 to 1000 fire ccalls a year. We have 2 3ngines, a truck, a squad, a special unit, and a utility for supplying additional manpower.
Here in Clarkson Nebraska have about 39 members total for fire and rescue. We have a population of about 500. We have around 11 or 12 rescue personal and we all have to be firefighters you cant just be on the squad. We run about 100 or so calls a year for both fire and rescue.
our firedept. has 25 firefighters, 1 chief, 1 Ast., 2 captins, 1 jr. ff, and 1 lt., 2 engines and 2 tankers covering 5 towns, we also do mutual aid with 5 other depts.
23 total, 1 chief, 1 assistant chief, 1 captian, 20 firefighters. we are an all volunteer department running around 100 calls a year. most of our calls are EMS or grass fires.
My old department had 14 also, 1 chief, 1 asst chief, 3 captains, 9 firefighters. there were always 4 on duty and mon-fri 9-5 the chief and asst chief were on duty as well.
Here in Tonasket, WA we've got about 35 firefighters all volunteer including 1 chief, 1 assistant chief, 1 captain and 2 lieutenants. Only about 6 or 8 ever show up tho. Average about 120 calls a yr. with no EMS calls.