https://fire.fandom.com/wiki/Halifax_Regional_Fire_and_Emergency_Service
this info seems to be very accurate and up to date 1. many stations have engines and tankers - some stations have just 1 engine - some stations have just 1 tanker - at least 1 station just has an aerial / quint 2. gonna guess that the units in the urban areas have 4 person crews 3. gonna guess that the "A" units are the 2nd out units - and they are usually staffed by recalled or paid on call firefighters - not sure if any of the career guys carry pagers / apps for off duty alerting or not 4. not sure if they have minimum staffing requirements for the 'on call' rigs - did hear radio traffic from 1 Rescue or Squad that was responding with just 1 person on board - unknown if they retone / repage / realert after 3 minutes or whatever 5. there might be a total of 4 regional PSAPs in Nova Scotia - with fire calls and ambulance calls being forwarded via 1 button transfers 6. they have around 10 reserve pumpers / tankers + 5 reserve aerials 7. all aerials seem to be quints but with small water tanks 8. the closest hydrant to the fire start location might have been 3 miles away - with no other fire water supplies in the area - apparently all the homes around there have wells and septic tanks - most homes in the area have a culvert where their driveway meets the roadway - they must get gullywashers from thunderstorms or hurricanes 9. seeing as how most stations have 2 pumpers - they were in a very good position to send units from all 60 stations and still retain excellent coverage - possibly they never staffed all of their apparatus 10. google street view has coverage up to 1 block from fire start location 11. provincial forestry has 5 fire hueys based at shubenacadie - which is maybe 10 minutes flight time away - how many of those helos were staffed? when did they respond? 12. if 200 homes were destroyed - and each was valued at $1 million - then common sense tells you that spending $199 million before the fire would have been prudent - you could put a fire truck at every home in Nova Scotia for $199 million - but the catch is - you never really know when the big fire will break out - but I bet the next time Halifax has a red flag event - they will have a lot more firefighters on duty - unless they are a really really really bad FD -- 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/CAFXWwKbPKTjfiH19O%2B%3DJiJvgG354eoLcCR0nM79aifr8b9qF3g%40mail.gmail.com.
