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Comment by Chad Moore on May 9, 2009 at 12:17am

I'm A Volunteer Fire fighter in Wv 0ur station is Station #4 my number is 441, we serve a medium sized area,and run automatic aid to neighboring department not mention mutual aid we provide to a neigboring county, here we have no truck assignments pretty much if your cleared to drive it and their first your the driver and pump operator, we have 2 pumpers and 4x4 rescue truck and about 20 members, a small but nice little station in the mountain state.

Comment by Kevin Burks on May 7, 2009 at 7:48pm

Volunteer here in the middle of TEXAS . We have 17 firefighters with several EMTs on the dept. We have 3 brush trucks that carry 1200 gal. each . A 3000gal. tanker, and 2 old engines. we cover about 170 sq. miles with this one station. we have about 300 or so calls a year. That may not sound like a lot but for our little dept. it is.

Comment by Dustin on May 7, 2009 at 4:37pm

I am a Career Firefighter for Naval Air Station Brunswick, Maine and a volunteer for Cape Elizabeth, Maine. CEFD provides ALS services to its citizens and is 100% Volunteer FD. NASB FD is a federal fire department. We cover the US Navy base as well as provide auto-aid for a multitude of departments in the surrounding area utilizing a minimum of 12 crew.

Comment by Paul Everson on May 7, 2009 at 2:40pm

I am employed by the City of Maplewood Minnesota Fire Department as a Fire Captain/ Paramedic. We are a combination department with five fire stations. Our department is made up of around 80 paid-per-call (Volunteer) and 15 fulltime staff. We provide ALS and fire protection to 37,000 residents and cover 19 square miles. We respond to 4000 calls for service a years, so we are a busy little town. Maplewood is a suburb of St. Paul the capital of Minnesota and the head quaters for 3M.