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Big Volunteer Fire Departments
Riverside County California FD - a very large combined FD - see their website ??www.rcfd.org
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San Bernardino County FD in California - very large combined FD - see their website
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Tuolumne County CA - a combined paid/volunteer FD - see their website and articles and info
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Arvada Colorado VFD - see ?1997 Fire Rescue Magazine - ?largest VFD east of the Mississippi River
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Tinley Park, IL - 100 vols + ?FT - 49,000 population (Oct 2000)
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Kentland Maryland - 2 stations - 45 miles square in Prince Georges County Maryland - ?see June 1999 Fire Rescue Magazine - followup LTE says that Kentland VFD budget is $80,000 per year - no pay is given to any members - all members receive insurance coverage from the county
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Bloomington Minnesota VFD - ISO Class 3 - 150 vols - 88,000 pop - 38 miles square - suburb of Minneapolis - 6 stations - 1999 budget is $2.0 million - (FD is the secondary EMS first responder - PD is the EMS first responder and Alina Health Systems (a private provider) provides ALS transport (per 6/99 Email note from their website)) - see Bloomington FD Website
7/99 hiring info - PD Dispatcher - dispatches police, fire, and EMS - must know "non conforming streets" - $2687 per month to start - $2822 per month after 6 months - Fire Sta 1 is at 10 West 95 Street at Nicollet Ave (?is the City Comm Center?)
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West Pottsdam NY - June 1999 per local firefighter - first engine responds with 1 paid firefighter - if anything showing, pumper stops at hydrant, drops hydrant ring and then drops large diameter supply line to fire - a police officer or arriving call firefighter will connect the LDH to the hydrant and charge it with water
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Champions TX VFD - ?3 stations - Champions VFD Website
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Channelview TX VFD - 3 stations - 4 paid + 96 vols serve 33,000 people in 27 square miles - see their website at www.fire-ems.net
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Cypress Creek TX - Cypress Creek VFD
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Cy-Fair VFD Texas - 10 stations - Cy-Fair VFD Website
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Klein Fire Dept Texas - ?6 stations - Klein FD Website
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Pasadena Texas - ?9 stations - city of ?120,000 with large industrial plants - Pasadena VFD Website
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Pearland Texas - 3 stations - 13 rigs - $115K budget ($100K from city + $15K in donations) - 500 calls per year - 37,000 pop and 72 square miles in city - ?cover areas outside of city? - have a webpage on the city website - EMS is under EMA and staff 2 ALS A fulltime (staff is 12 PT PM, 25 vols, 9 PT EMT, 3FT support) - run 2600 calls per year - serve 55,000 people in a 80 square mile area
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Spring TX FD - 5 stations - 70,000 pop - 93 miles square - 25 fulltime - 121 vols - see www.fire-ems.net under TX
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PRIVATE FIRE DEPARTMENTS
Rural Metro in Arizona
Phoenix Area - ?7 stations
Tucson Area - ?7 stations
Yuma Area - ?3 stations
Nogales Area - ?1 station
Rural Metro in Tennessee - see their website
Oil Refinerys in Fire Apparatus Journals
Refinery Terminal FD at Chorpus Christi Texas
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PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICER ORGANIZATIONS
Marina CA - Dept of Public Safety - PSOs?
Rohnert Park in Sonoma Co CA - ?PSOs - PD + FD share radio freq
Sunnyvale California - City of Sunnyvale Website - PD not online yet - FD HazMat Office online - June 1999 - recruiting info for PSOs - 133,000 pop - Dept of Public Safety has 300 members - 215 are sworn - earn $48,000 to $66,000 per year - training is : 18 week police academy - 12 week police field training - 11 week regional fire academy - all PSOs are fully cross trained for fire and police duty - Oct 2000 - both FD and PD have more info online now - FD operates with 2 people on each fire rig - 12 rigs are based at 6 stations - PSOs on patrol assist fire rigs at incidents - there is a 420kb PDF titled "Public Safety Concepts and Practices" on the website under ?FD
Departments of Public Safety in Florida per 2000 Natl Directory of Fire Chiefs - Bushnell + Coconut Creek + Greenacres + Daytona Beach + Indian River Shores + MacClenny + Neptune Beach + Ocean Reef - (the following probably are not PSO organizations but they might be) - Bunnell Dept Emerg Svcs - Dixie Co Emerg Svcs - Indian River Co Emerg Svcs - Lake Co Emerg Svcs - Naples Emerg Svcs Dept - Palatka FD + Putnam Co Dept Public Safety - St Johns Co Emerg Svcs - Saratoga Co Emerg Svcs
Blue Grass Airport KY - 453.35 - per KY scanner list - PSOs work 2 weeks as firefighters then 2 weeks as police officers - October 2000
Public Safety Departments in Michigan per the 2000 National Directory of Fire Chiefs - Albion + Blackman + Canton Twp + esssexville + fraser + Grand Haven + Greenville + Grosse Pointe Park + Grosse Pointe Woods + Huntington Woods + Kalamazoo + Meridian Twp + Petoskey + Plainwell + Springfield
East Grand Rapids, Michigan - 35 public safety officers plus 4 paid-on-call firefighters - all staff are First responders or EMTs - AMR provides ALS transport - PSOs are divided into 3 twenty four hour platoons with 2 sargents plus 6 PSOs per platoon - a seperate midnite shift is rotated off a normal platoon every 4 weeks - the PD and FD were merged in 1986 - in 1998, they ran their first Citizens PSO Academy - the Fire Division responded to 346 fire and EMS calls in 1997 - an automatic response policy is in effect for certain locations with the Grand Rapids Charter Twp FD - there are 3 civilain dispatcher/clerks who answer business calls during week days - the County Sheriff Dept answers the 911 phone and dispatches all emergency units via a shared radio channel - ?ISO ration is ??????? - pop is ?????? - area is ?????????? - website is ?????????
Kalamazoo Michigan - (10/9/99) - per city website - the largest PSO department in the USA - Public Safety HQ (police station) + 7 PSO stations - website has slideshow of all "fire" stations - addresses listed for all 7 stations plus HQ - there are 3 public safety bargaining units - city is 26 miles square - the FY98 PSO budget was recommended to be $24.8 million which was down .5% from FY97 - 241 PSOs (officers + equipment operators) - 140 police vehicles - 11 fire vehicles - 7 stations
Joplin Missouri - 42,000 pop - weekdays has 100,000 people - lies in Jasper County and Newton County - 73 public safety officers - ?really PSO operation? - page 55 June 1999 APCO Magazine - per 1998 Joplin Chamber of Commerce Community Profile 1998 - 1996 pop is 44,000 - 62 police officers - 66 firefighters - ISO4 in the city - ISO10 outside the city - www.joplincc.org - per Joplin Fire Explorers at www.fire-ems.net - 5 stations - 5 Engines - 1 Ladder - 41,000 pop - 47 miles square - 5 stations - ISO 4 (?1997) - doesnt look like a PSO operation - no city website as of 6/99
Depts of Public Safety in NC per 2000 Natl Directory of Fire Chiefs - Fontana Village + Longview + Monroe (pop 21,000) + Morganton (pop 16,000)
Morganton NC - (10/9/99)
see www.ci.morganton.nc.us
Palm Walker is the PIO at pwalker@hci.net (10/99)
The Public Safety Dept has 73 fulltime (FT) sworn officers + 16 FT civilians + 8 FT fire engineers based at 1 HQ plus 3 satelitte stations within the city limits - ambulance service is provided by the County EMS - there are also 28 part time employees who serve as reserve firefighters and reserve officers - all sworn officers perform fire and police duties
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey - all police officers are also trained as firefighters - Laguardia, Kennedy, and Newark Airports have crash fire rescue crews staffed by police officer/firefighters - the PANY has 7,495 positions which is down 20% since 1995 - the Port Authority PD has 1200 sworn staff - 632 are CPR certified - 170 are defib certified - have 40 EMTs and 30 First Responders - the PD is 71 years old and is the 26th largest law enforcement agency in the USA - on 4/16/99, 53 recruits graduated from the 22 week long PANY Police Academy (info taken from the news releases at the PANY website on 9/3/99)
Spartanburg South Carolina Public Safety Department - city of 43,000 people - 69 firefighters + 138 PSOs - 5 fire stations - response times of 2 or 3 minutes - 97/98 went from ISO 4 to ISO 3 (seek ISO 2 classification in 1999) - firefighters work 24 hours on / 48 hours off - roster of rigs at website - 1996 to 1998 fire statistics given (dont list any fire deaths or injuries) - City Website with Public Safety Basic Info + Public Safety Dept Website
Knoxville TN Int Airport - 7/99 Public Safety Dept website is under construction at this time
Nashville TN Int Airport - 7/99 per their website - 67 PSOs + 16 civilian traffic cops - 1/3 of PSOs are EMTs - have 1 or 2 golfcrt ambulances in the terminal(s)
Dallas / Fort Worth Texas International Airport - per their website - 7/7/99 - they do not appear to be a true PSO dept - when hiring recruits, they require them to accept either police or fire training as needed by the dept - then they either take police or fire training and serve as trained and certified - ems is part of ?fd - "pso" rcruits start at $34,000 per year - telecommunicators start at $29,000 per year
Chorpus Christi Texas Int Airport - all 19 PSO are EMTs - 1 station - 4 crash trucks - 5 dispatchers - 1 chief - 2 lieuts - 3 sargents - 13 officers - see the webpage at www.fire-ems under TX (?6/99)
Highland Park TX near Fort Worth - all PSO are paramedics - 7/5/99dfwscan info - 859.9375R is radio freq for all ops - fire/police station is at 4700 drexel near Eaton - E59 - E60 - reserve E - Medic 1 / MICU - use ProNet AVL - 453.15 is ?old freq
Southlake TX - ?have some PSOs
Wautauga TX - police officers are PSOs - keep bunker gear in trunk of cars - backed up by vol/reserve firefighters - ambo by AMR (7/99)
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NATIONAL PARKS
Big Bend National Park in Texas - 10/4/99 - seeking to hire a GS9 area ranger for the Chisos District - responsible for an active horse program, EMS, maintenance and operation of structural fire engine and structural fire cache, wildland firefighting, law enforcement, search and rescue, fee collection, campground maintenance, and resource management. Requirements : law enforcement commission, wildland fire red card, EMT or park medic certificates, level 1 or 2 structural firefighting. An assigned 3 bedroom, 1.5 bath residence is included.
Grand Canyon National Park - ?4 stations - see other file on this website
Yosemite National Park - 5 stations
Yellowstone National Park - ?10 stations - see other file on this website
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10/9/99 - added info on Morganton NC and Kalamazoo MI under PSO Depts - plus info at Big bend Natl Park - 7Oct00 - Tinley Park IL - 22Oct00 - more info for Sunnyvale CA - Blue Grass Airport KY PSOs - 5Nov00 - PSDs in NC + FL + MI
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