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Yokohama City Fire Brigade in Kanagawa Prefecture (State)
Fire Brigade = volunteers
Fire Department = main station = paid guys
Fire Branch Station = sub station = paid guys
possibly the vols only get alerted during disasters and major fires -
their fire stations are approx 1/2 mile from each other
paid stations are usually 1 to 1.5 miles apart
this applies to all of Tokyo (except downtown) and also Kanagawa
Prefecture - probably the rest of Japan is similar
the vols might not have SCBA - they might just do exterior
firefighting - they might not do any EMS work
vols seem to have their own chain of command and their own chief - but
they take orders from the paid guys at emergency scenes
I suspect that everyone (vol and paid) is dispatched from the same
fire dispatch office - maybe even on the same radio freqs - most vol
stations have horns or sirens - so maybe they do not have pagers - but
I bet they get text messages nowadays
left out the most important part - the picture on the station door is the crew an their engine
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