recent major fires have taken out up to 20,000 buildings in 1 single day - Paradise CA + Boulder CO + Gatlinburg TN etc
how many homes could have been saved if each fire station had enough modern fire engines to be staffed by every available firefighter? each paid fire station typically is staffed by 3 people daily - with 6 people off duty - if each paid station had 3 modern pumpers, then on the ultra high hazard days - or after a major earthquake etc - all 3 modern fire engines could be staffed by all available firefighters - maybe even 4 or 5 fire engines if you include retired firefighters and visiting firefighters or passerby firefighters a similar situation exists for volunteer fire stations - most volunteer stations have at least 12 trained interior and wildfire qualified firefighters - so one volunteer station could staff between 6 and 10 modern fire engines - (again if you include some visiting and retired firefighters) - (and if staffing is 2 people per modern engine) note - a rural pumper with pump and roll capability and a mounted deck gun can safely be operated by 1 person at a wildfire -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "massfire" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/massfire/CAFXWwKaCDjw1iAtwhA%3DY2%3DcqJ8fSFn7D6eTGJrP6SdwSrAbJgA%40mail.gmail.com.
