https://www.city.yokohama.lg.jp/kurashi/bousai-kyukyu-bohan/shobo/bosai/shobodan/shokai/05-16.html
Yokohama is a city with 4 million residents - the city is divided up into 18 wards - I think that each ward has its own volunteer fire brigade to support the paid firefighters this page has multi photos of the Aoba Ward volunteers - they have small pumpers and chain saws etc The Aoba Ward Volunteers have 25 stations and 25 tiny pumpers - they have 451 volunteers - the tiny pumpers have 1 portable pump each it seems typically the volunteers do receive pay for training and response to calls - afaik - they are considered to be part time municipal employees - same as the USA it seems - but I think they might only respond to earthquakes and typhoons in the big cities -- 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/CAFXWwKbMwqQZa2xYEPmJZTGmvofugDJj2Wrqa-7uuzETLzuWUQ%40mail.gmail.com.
