Japan - all expressways seem to be 2 lanes in each direction - never three or 4 lanes -many elevated sections - sometimes stacked on top of each other - some sections of roadway are painted red - not sure why - maybe on blind curves
Boston MA - FD apparently has a policy that calls cannot be cancelled except by a FD unit - police cant cancel calls - EMS cant cancel calls - alarm companies cant cancel calls - even fire dispatchers cant cancel calls apparently - once a call gets dispatched, someone from FD has to go to the scene and put eyes on the situation - I have to back pedal on that a little - if the fire dispatcher knows that a unit was sent to a wrong location, the unit can be given a "621" code (or some code - forget the exact the exact number) - you will hear from the dispatcher - "Engine 1 you can return, (that is) a 621" - "return" = return to quarters Boston MA - FD might respond to non injury motor vehicle accidents - but only if on a major street - BFd apparently does respond to all "motor vehicle accident with injury" calls Boston MA - FD might respond to 911 hang up calls but only if at a hospital I wonder how many cops in the USA serve as volunteer firefighters and EMTs? I wonder how many career firefighters or career EMS staff also serve as volunteer / on call firefighters or EMTs? How about nurses and doctors - how many of them serve as oncall EMTs or FFs? There is really no such thing (very rare) as a 'on call' cop in the USA. (except maybe the SWAT teams) - How many DPW workers seve on VFDs? What are the odds that every VFD in the USA can be converted to a fulltime fire/amb crew or a fulltime PSO? The national Parks might be a good guide here. Most of the national parks are very rural. They are self contained without backup from local publci safety agencies. So they have multi hat rangers and on call mtcne people who serve as on call FFs. Small towns down to 1,000 population can probably afford to have 1 or 2 fulltime people who can do the police and ambulance work - that makes up 90% of the public safety work. If every small town phased out their VFD - how would that affect ISO ratings? How would it affect death rates and fire losses? -- 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 post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/massfire. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
