Aurora, CO Brush Fire 5/2/14

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You may not be able to answer this, but with a reported brush fire why such a delay in getting a wildland response?

 

Around here a reported fire (car, structure etc) with just a threat of wildland will get a full wildland response in addition to the appropriate response to handle the reported call. 

 

I think your photos demonstrate quite well why we do that.

You're absolutely correct Aaron.  AFD sends very light responses to most fire incidents, especially wildland.  A vegetation fire no mater the size or location gets 1 Engine and usually 1 Brush Truck.  Surprisingly they only have two dozen members who are wildland qualified and very few firefighters have wildland PPE. 

 

It's an issue that is being addressed internally and hopefully they'll have some improvements soon.  Any type of structure fire even with multiple reports only gets 2 Battalions, 2 Engines & 2 Trucks... 16 Firefighters and 2 Chiefs.  An Aurora 2nd Alarm is equivalent to most other departments working fire response.