this is what fire fandom shows today for los angeles county fd
228 Engine Companies (Career and paid-on-call)
176 Type 1 Engines
11 Type 3 Engines (Including 5 OES)
41 Type 6 Patrols
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the budget document says 163 engine companies - why the difference in numbers?
1. 176 + 11 + 41 = 228
2. however - 'engine' is not the same as 'engine company' - 'engine'
is a vehicle - 'engine company' is the crew / people
3. iirc none of the type 3 engines and none of the type 6 engines are
full time staffed
4. there seems to be 6 TY3 engines that are cross staffed by the 3 or
4 people from the associated type 1 engine - the 5 OES type 3 engines
are maybe staffed by overtime people
5. the type 6 patrols are maybe staffed by 1 person from the
associated type 1 engine - and they respond with the Type 1 engine to
calls - for greater access to dirt roads perhaps
6. if we had to guess - we would guess that there are 165 type 1
engines that have 24/7 crews of 3 or 4 people - AND - there are 11
type engines that are staffed by paid on call firefighters - at sta 92
and 117 and 70 and 71 and 55 and 155 etc
7. Station 155 might be the only station staffed solely by paid on
call firefighters - and 157 green valley and 112 near lancaster and
140 - ( maybe a couple more - maybe not - 50/50 odds on that )
8. maybe there are 11 stations that have paid on call engines - and 4
of those stations have only 'paid on call' firefighters - therefore -
doing the math - there must be 7 stations that have both 24/7 paid
firefighters - plus 'paid on call' firefighters - apparently none of
the LA County stations have 'daytime firefighters' - like Cal Fire -
which is kinda weird considering that USFS and BLM only have daytime
firefighters 99% of the time
9. enough of this crap - we put purple snowflakes on the map to show
the VOLUNTEER stations in LA County -
https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1_w7H8a8E4m1L6MxvKJgBKUAljvo&usp=sharing
10. just occurred to me - some of these purple snowflake stations
might not have cellphone service in their areas
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