Four Years Later: A Second Needs Assessment of the U.S. Fire Service: Arkansas

摘要

Public Law 108-767, Title XXXVI Assistance to Firefighters, included a requirement for new information in a study and report on assistance to firefighters. (Section 3603) The 2005 Fire Service Needs Assessment survey was conducted as a stratified random sample by size of community. A stratified sample was selected with all larger departments (protecting over 50,000 population) included, and a random sample of departments protecting smaller communities was also selected. It was estimated that a response of approximately 4,500 fire departments would be sufficient to make reliable national estimates and state estimates as long as it included a good response from larger departments. The results for Arkansas presented in this report are based on 88 fire departments that responded, or 24% of the 360 departments in Arkansas that were sent forms as part of the 2005 Fire Needs Assessment Survey.