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Brad Nair's Blog – June 2014 Archive (1)

The closest department Goes

Normally when Mrs. Smith dials 911 for her emergency or witnesses an emergency, she will receive some sort of emergency apparatus at the place of the emergency incident location. Most times the emergency apparatus will come from a local fire and emergency services department in the community, other times it will not.



In my local area, 90 percent of the time, when the Fire Box is struck, departments from farther away are dispatched rather than the closer one. This boggles my…

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Added by Brad Nair on June 1, 2014 at 4:13pm — No Comments

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