How Buget Cuts Effect Fire Departments

The fiscal problem is that there are not enough paid on call firefighters to respond to calls. Recruiting more firefighters to the Western Springs Fire Department would be a benefit to the department as well as the village. The department would have enough firefighters to control the all calls by mitigating the problem and save life/ property. This would also eliminate the need of calling and rely on other departments to respond to the villages own 911 call. If the fire department has extra beneficial items to offer to the new firefighters it could attract more firefighters to join and this would stop the fiscal problem.

Fire district 13 is located in the forested valleys and steep foothills of the Cascade Mountain Range at the base of Mount St. Helens. Access to our district, primarily reached by one main county road, is limited. With automatic mutual aid to neighboring districts with, major rail, and freeway- interoperability is key. Located above the Cascadia Subduction zone, Clark County is due for a catastrophic earthquake. The area that includes fire district 13 is a transitional zone between unoccupied forest land and human development. Being a part of the wildland urban interface zone puts us at a higher risk for wildfires.

Over the past couple of years, our small city of Granbury has seen a drastic spike in population. This recent growth has not only caused an unemployment crisis, but it also has influenced a greater risk of devastating fires for both homes and businesses. However, if the city of Granbury were to adopt full time fire departments, all citizens and businesses would benefit in numerous aspects. By adopting these full time departments, it is clear that our cities proficiency, productivity, and safety will increase greatly. There is a little over 400 volunteer firefighters at seven departments spread across Granbury. This not only means that these hard working heros do not receive a paycheck for their excruciating efforts, but it also reveals that these 400 firefighters are not stationed at their departments which indicates they must travel to the station to be able to then respond to a call causing a slow response time; opposed to career departments that always have their stations manned which is proven to generate a quicker response time. Not only do these full time departments ensure proper response times to emergencies, but they will also correspond with companies insurance codes which allow their franchises to be opened in cities only with these career departments. Many companies such as Target, Academy, Olive Garden, Main Event, etc… all require professional fire departments for their stores to be built in that city. Also, the lack of recreational opportunities prevent social

FEMA was not able to provide effective disaster relief due to incompetent leadership. Those in charge, such as FEMA Director Michael D. Brown were unqualified and in power because of connections to the Bush Administration. Bush’s saving grace in this category was his quick passing of the “PATRIOT Act”. Though it can be argued that it was a poor decision in the long run, he responded quickly and innovatively in an attempt to protect America from potential terrorist attacks.

Agreed that you can make data say anything that you want, but if your not preventing fires, if you not training, if you don’t have enough staffing and if your not getting the latest and greatest fire equipment you know it! These things need to be pushed from the fire chief, city or town mayor, county Board of Supervisors, or whom ever is in charge. Be proactive instead of reactive with all of the knee jerk reactions. All three of these reports listed a number figure that fires took away from us, all three listed ways to keep it from happening again, but yet the same fires are burning, the same outdated fire trucks are going out the door with one or two people on them. Its time to do something with the statistics that we have for 50 years or more.

Dallesandro, M. P. (2014, March). Coming Soon: Volunteer and Combination Fire Department Studies. Volunteers Corner. Retrieved September 29, 2016, from http://eds.b.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.faytechcc.edu/eds/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=5eaf5717-26a0-4412-8e10-131a830331d4@sessionmgr104&vid=2&hid=114

Many do not know of the budget crisis going on but those that do recognize it is a major issue. These citizens that understand what is going of have begun to protest because their safety is at risk. The cuts that have been going on reduce the size of the police force which in turn brings crime rates up, and also fire departments have fewer men and unmaintained equipment to help rescue civilians. This scares many citizens into either moving to a city with a better emergency service budget or protesting to get their city’s budget raised. "I pray that nobody in this room needs the police or fire in their new future," another attendee remarked” (qtd. In Smith 5). Many citizens feel that their local governments have been focused on the wrong things. They believe that the local governments have it all wrong. One citizen quoted in Smith paragraph 6 said “the public service has to be number one.” These civilians have gone to city council meeting with petitions and protested a change. In some areas, this has led to budget renegotiations as well as contracts being

The Golden Fire Department is a great place to work for and be a part of this organization makes me feel proud and important part of the community. As the city has grown, demand for services from Fire Department are growing each year, therefore being available to ease the administrative workload from Fire Divisions helps them to concentrate on the important services to inside and outside customers, this makes me feel valued and needed. I am looking forward to next year in continuing my

Most of these fires are due to poor building conditions, and the deaths and injuries are attributed to the lack of escape possibilities and fire safety measures. The American Red Cross in the Greater New York Region has been taking measures to alleviate this problem. The chapter participates in the organization’s Home Fire Preparedness Campaign, in which volunteers go around neighborhoods and install smoke alarms and and distribute fire-safety information. The campaign is very active in Bronx

Following the Department of Police is the Fire Department, with a budget of $.5 billion. Being the city’s largest department by more than double the next largest department appears to have an effect on the annual budgeting process. Over the past three annual budgets (years 2014, 2015, and 2016), the Department of Police has been approved a budget larger than the recommended departmental budget; growing nearly $100 million dollars over the three-year period (Exhibit 2). During this period of time, the Department of Public Health experienced a decrease in allocations two of the last three years and has an annual budget $5 million dollars lower for 2016 than in

In BC, in 2050, the forest fires will have a big impact on the standards of living in Canada. The forest fires will affect both the health and wealth aspects of living standards. For example, forest fires are very expensive, sometimes even costing billions of dollars. This huge cost will affect the economy (or economic value) of Canada considerably. The forestry industry will also influence the living standards if the forest fires do not allow the recently planted trees to grow. Since one in seven jobs are connected to the forestry industry in BC, many people’s jobs will be involved. The standards of living in Canada will be damaged if action is not taken towards properly protecting forests from fires.

nation may be at risk. The U.S.A. works as a team, with members of society relying on one

Apart from financial bureaucratic bottlenecks we do not have any other regulatory constraints affecting the deployment of critical communications in our service. Realizing the importance of the Federal Fire Service in tackling the fire hazards facing the country, the Federal Executive Council consisting of all ministers approved the sum of over N1billion for the purchase of critical communications in our agency, but the money is yet to be released to us for over two years

Wildfires cause millions to billions of dollars each year in the USA. According to Lynn Jenner, the cost for wildfires has peaked to 2 billion in the last year. This is double what the the usual cost it. Which is about 1 billion. To total costs for wildfires in the last 8 years has been 7 billion, and two billion of that came from 2017. This is important because 7 billion dollars is a lot of money, and if people don’t

While arson is defined as the intentional and malicious setting of fire to a building, land, a vehicle, or other property with the intent to cause damage, arson for profit is the intentional and malicious setting of fire for financial again, often with the intent to commit insurance fraud (U.S. Fire Administration, 2009. The scope of arson for profit ranges from individuals using arson to escape an unwanted car loan to business ventures that buy property for the sole purpose of burning them to collect the insurance (U.S. Fire Administration, 2009). The end results of these types of insurance scams can generate over one billion in annual insurance pay-outs (U.S. Fire Administration, 2009). Arson for profit also results in “lost housing, tax dollars, and jobs, and more costly government services” (Goetz, 1997, p. 562).