https://web.archive.org/web/20230105153640/https://www.witn.com/2023/01/05/one-eastern-carolina-county-updates-dispatch-areas-after-two-fires-within-four-days/
https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1r6ovPrsNFyjz-uaB7K9ZzCcr6d00qN0&usp=sharing - zerg90 map - fire location is at black flame icon after doing some research - the heart of the problem seems to be - bad blood between city fd and volunteer FDs - not 100% sure but it seems that the city fd is 100% paid - and everyone else in the county is volunteer - ( except the county has a paid ambulance service with 34 fulltime staff ) per the county budget - there are $2.3M raised in county fire taxes and $1.7M raised in county ems taxes - no really sure where that money goes to - maybe some of the county FDs actually have some paid staff - maybe there is a private ambulance company involved somewhere - county ems only operates 3 als ambulances and 2 als qrv - washington fd in 2022 added 4 non fire paramedics - 1 works daily seems to be more to this story another angle to this story is that the closest station to the fire location has their HQ in Pitt County not in Beaufort County - so this is actually a multi county response area note - the article makes no mention of what the actual response times were - would not be surprised if the county units took 12 minutes to respond but the city FD could have been there in 2 minutes keywords - bad response - bad mutual aid plan - inadequate response plan - borked response - screwed up response - slow response - mutual aid wars - mutual aid battles note - washington had a combined police and fire department from 1996 to 1998 - they got hit be 2 hurricanes - the chief left - that was the end of pso concept / public safety officer concept -- 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/CAFXWwKYF5mefDwdTtWAce9D2asxDm4q9QsLWafcbcp1fdQVAow%40mail.gmail.com.
