https://www.kaigai-shobo.jp/files/fireserviceinjapan/1Fire_Service_eng.pdf
approx 25 pages of info Japan fire deaths in 2011 were 1,766 - in 2021 they were 1,417 - thats a 20 percent decline - possibly they have been doing lots of public fire education over the last 10 years average ambulance response time from call to arrival is 9.4 minutes - it might be 5 minutes to get a bls crew from an engine - we know that tokyo sends bls engines to critical ems calls - and they have more engines than ambulances - actually - each tokyo fire station has at least 1 ambulance - so maybe they dont save ANY time by sending engines - in which case 9 minutes is pretty slow - but that probably includes a healthy amount of rural areas National Fire Service Teams have 25,000 members - this is lie the USA USAR teams - they apparently are local firefighters who are trained and equipped to go to incident nationwide Japan has a population of 125 Million 45 million people are trained as volunteer fire prevention people - apparently they have been given cpr and fire extinguisher training there are 784,000 volunteer firefighters there are 168,000 fulltime firefighters fulltime firefighters cover 99% of the population -- shes got a kid ... together - https://youtu.be/IQQ-hxIwm70?si=8jrwZRcfZg-vN4Ye&t=237 -- 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 massfire+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/massfire/CAFXWwKZzkZrCdkwSaHAJKhBpJhhTV9u4TcaYaemEYeEd_d16-w%40mail.gmail.com.