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Boyd Allen (no login)
Posted Mar 16, 2009 8:07 PM
No confusion, he didn't call them. He called the emergency number and they dispatched all the departments within a certain radius. Each department may bring just one truck if necessary, the rest are most likely volunteers. The primary department that is the closest will use all their trucks and will most likely call for help if needed.
I used to be a volunteer fire fighter and if the fire was big enough, we call dispatch and they would round up another department that is the next closest. Often, we hear the other departments being called for their fires, and we'll stand by listening on the radio in case they need us if the fire is a house fire or brush that is too close to residences.
My wife and I stopped last Thursday on my way home from work to a house fire that we saw. The fire departments came with their trucks, but several volunteers were responding in their own vehicles. I'd say about three to four departments were dispatched for this house fire.
So several fire departments may yield about five or six trucks, mostly tankers to carry the water. Hopefully, he had a big pool or pond on site to help supplement the tankers.
Bar-S-Ranch in Riedsville, NC has a large pond (about two or three acres) that the local fire department uses to refill their tanks. So the local fire department gets an eyeful every time they come to refill or flush out their tanks!
And the White Tail Resort has their own truck, but I don't know if they back up the other fire departments in their town. Good PR though if they did.
Boyd
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