https://www.abc4.com/news/top-stories/navajo-nation-receives-fleet-of-new-fire-trucks/
that picture shows pretty much the entire FD
and they cover a huge area
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blah blah blah follows - iirc I have posted this all before - but it
is very clever how this article is presented - would be interesting if
the reporter asked when was the last time they saved a bld or life
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I think they might have 8 stations iirc - each has 1 pumper and 3 paid
people - plus some on call people - stations are 20 to 50 miles apart
iirc
apparently 1 paid person is at each station 24/7 - pagers get set off
for a call - either the paid person heads out alone or waits a couple
of minutes for someone to show up at the station as backup - or they
might have 3 paid people on duty weekdays - and the oncall guys work
the off hours
their ambulance service is very similar - maybe 10 stations - 1 main
ambulance per station - a 2nd amb as backup - 2 people on duty at each
station 24/7 - off duty people get called in for 2ndary calls iirc -
stations are 20 to 50 miles apart - 1 of their stations is in the
absolute middle of nowhere
on the bright side - I think that the schools are still run by BIA -
and if it is a boarding school they have a fire brigade staffed by BIA
mtnce - maybe
no one really talks much about this
they have 173,000 people living on 27,000 square miles - that is 5
times larger than Massachusetts - being covered by approx 10 fire
stations - with a staff of maybe 30 paid firefighters
I did the comparison to Worcester Mass before iirc - 400 paid ff vs 30
Navajo Nation might consider combining their fire and ems departments
- but maybe they take 2 hours to reach the closest hospitals with
patients - that would take a crew out of action for maybe 5 hours on
every call
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