Organization
Fire departments are organized in a system of administration, services, training, and operations; for example:
- Administration is responsible for supervision, budgets, policy, and human resources.
- Service offers protection, safety, and education to the public.
- Training creates skilled people with the knowledge to perform their duties.
- Operations performs the tasks to successfully save the public from harm.
A fire department is normally set up where it can have fire stations and sophisticated fire apparatus strategically deployed throughout the area under its control so that dispatchers can send fire engines, fire trucks, or ambulances from the fire stations closest to the incident. Larger departments have branches within themselves to increase efficiency, composed of volunteers, support, and research.
- Volunteers give advantages to the department in a state of emergency.
- Support organizing the resources within and outside of the department.
- Research is to give advantages in new technologies for the department.
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