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This is a list of fire departments in the world. A fire department or fire brigade also known as a fire and rescue service or fire service is a public or private organization that provides firefighting, rescue and emergency medical services for a certain jurisdiction, which is typically a municipality, county or fire protection district.
Fire department vehicles outside a fire station in Middleborough, Massachusetts, United States. A fire department (North American English) or fire brigade (Commonwealth English), [note 1] also known as a fire company, fire authority, fire district, fire and rescue, or fire service in some areas, is an organization that provides fire prevention and fire suppression services as well as other ...
A fire fighter's turnout gear staged in front of a fire engine. As of 2014, there were 1,134,400 firefighters in the United States (not including firefighters who work for the state or federal governments or in private fire departments). Of these, 346,150 (31%) are career and 788,250 (69%) are volunteer.
Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service in action. The fire services in the United Kingdom operate under separate legislative and administrative arrangements in England and Wales, Northern Ireland, and Scotland . As of 2023, emergency cover is provided by 49 fire and rescue services (FRS) in the UK. [1] The older terms of fire brigade and fire ...
The following ranks are commonly found in indian fire departments. [3] Director general, fire and rescue services (head of the department) ( IPS cadre officer in the rank of DGP) Director/additional director. Regional fire officer/ divisional officer/joint director. District fire officer.
The New York City Fire Department is the largest municipal fire department in both North America, and the Western Hemisphere, and the second largest in the world after the Tokyo Fire Department. [ citation needed ] The FDNY employs over 11,000 uniformed firefighting employees, 4,274 uniformed EMS employees, and 2,096 civilian employees.
Volunteer fire department. A volunteer fire department ( VFD) is a fire department of volunteers who perform fire suppression and other related emergency services for a local jurisdiction. Volunteer and retained (on-call) firefighters are expected to be on call to respond to emergency calls for long periods of time, and are summoned to the fire ...
This article is a list of the emergency and first responder agencies that responded to the September 11 attacks against the United States, on September 11, 2001.These agencies responded during and after the attack and were part of the search-and-rescue, security, firefighting, clean-up, investigation, evacuation, support and traffic control on September 11.