in the USA we have FDs and FPDs FD = fire department
FPD = fire protection district a 'fire department' is typically part of a local government - part of a city, town, county, borough, village, CSD etc a 'fire protection district' (FPD) is a separate governmental body unto themselves - they have their own publicly elected leaders (typically called 'commissioners') there are some fire agencys that are called Fire Company or Volunteer Fire Company - they are typically found in Pennsylvania - they are private organizations - and they typically have a contract with a local government agency to supply fire protection in a given area - sometimes an incoporated area - maybe sometimes an unincorporated area - this is a special case - not very often seen across the USA - actually - maybe we need to take that back - iirc MT and ID have some VFCs - maybe CA has a few also - typically covering rural areas that dont really have county services or local services - but we digress both FDs and FPDs typically receive tax funding for stations or vehicles or payroll or insurance or fuel etc some VFCs receive governental money also - some exist totally on donations from the public generally speaking - the services provided by FDs and FPDs and VFCs are all very similar - none of them are generally richer or poorer than others - none of them have newer or older vehicles or stations - none of them seem to have better or worse save rates than the others all of these agencies operate under state laws - and maybe under downstream county and local laws many of the smaller FDs have much older fire vehicles - but it is hard to justify a $2M ladder truck in a town that has only 1 structure fire every 20 years -- 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 visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/massfire/CAFXWwKZUuAtY90L9tfrD0aVTf8Tvjvydgix0jbCgc4YEXYUu8w%40mail.gmail.com.
