FIRE! But Who, What, Where, and When?

摘要

There is A LOT of this going around lately, concerns about response in combination or volunteer fire (and EMS) departments. I took on the issue pretty hard last Fall (see "The Volunteer Fire Rescue Gamble," FireRescue, October 2017), but it is worth covering again-specifically related to your questions about time-of-day response. In 1956 there was a book written entitled The Romance of Firefighting by Robert S. Holzman (and it's still out there and copies are available). While the book is a wonderful fire service history book, the title is what always got to me.