Stop pretending you have a fire department.

[AYoung]

You can only provide the services the tax payers are willing to pay for. I've been told that for many many years. This applies to everyone, but honestly applies more to the volunteer jurisdictions that anywhere else. Luckily I work for a full time department with established automatic mutual aid, staffing levels and run assignments, and live in a city with a full time department that has multiple companies.

 

[jlab]

Two things that would help this are one, county funded fire departments and secondly, automatic mutual aid on the report of a structure fire not just confirmation.

I do have a question regarding the money issue if anyone knows this. Regardless of if the fire departments are volunteer or full time, if community A needs assistance from community B on an emergency does community A's government have to pay community B's for their assistance?

Sometimes yes and sometimes no. It all depends on the location.

 

[jlab]

The first step is recognition of a problem which doesn't usually happen until a disaster strikes. Then the only solution is some type of regionalization of fire fighting resources but this may not help with response times.