https://web.archive.org/web/20230105153640/https://www.witn.com/2023/01/05/one-eastern-carolina-county-updates-dispatch-areas-after-two-fires-within-four-days/
https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1r6ovPrsNFyjz-uaB7K9ZzCcr6d00qN0&usp=sharing
- zerg90 map - fire location is at black flame icon
after doing some research - the heart of the problem seems to be - bad
blood between city fd and volunteer FDs - not 100% sure but it seems
that the city fd is 100% paid - and everyone else in the county is
volunteer - ( except the county has a paid ambulance service with 34
fulltime staff )
per the county budget - there are $2.3M raised in county fire taxes
and $1.7M raised in county ems taxes - no really sure where that money
goes to - maybe some of the county FDs actually have some paid staff -
maybe there is a private ambulance company involved somewhere - county
ems only operates 3 als ambulances and 2 als qrv - washington fd in
2022 added 4 non fire paramedics - 1 works daily
seems to be more to this story
another angle to this story is that the closest station to the fire
location has their HQ in Pitt County not in Beaufort County - so this
is actually a multi county response area
note - the article makes no mention of what the actual response times
were - would not be surprised if the county units took 12 minutes to
respond but the city FD could have been there in 2 minutes
keywords - bad response - bad mutual aid plan - inadequate response
plan - borked response - screwed up response - slow response - mutual
aid wars - mutual aid battles
note - washington had a combined police and fire department from 1996
to 1998 - they got hit be 2 hurricanes - the chief left - that was the
end of pso concept / public safety officer concept
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