HOW MANY FDs ARE THERE IN THE USA ANY HOW?

www.fema.gov/nfdc/firedept.htm - 30,665 FDs in USA - 1997 - source is NFPA - 1,079,050 firefighters - FDs are 6% career - 5% mostly career - 15% mostly volunteer - 73% all volunteer

?6/13/99 www.firehouse.com? - ?200K career firefighters in the USA

Sept 1998 PN Fireman - page 18 - 44,000 career and volunteer FDs in the USA

Sept 1998 PN Fireman - page 44 - 25,000 fire-response jurisdictions per ?ISO - rating areas (for instance, maybe Prince Georges County MD has one rating for the entire county but has 35 VFDs plus one County FD)

1994 Municipal Yearbook - average FD expenditure for all cities and towns - $99 per capita for police - $63 per capita for FD - the number of fire staff per 1000 population has remained vitually constant for the last 12 years - 1.64 fire staff per 1000 pop - 1993
1.61 in 1983 - lowest
1.73 in 1990 - highest

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