Indeed. I was looking at a map of Nevada and the city runs east and west from 1st Street to 19th Street, and north and south from A Avenue to T Avenue. 19 blocks by 20 blocks or so?
Of course, I would imagine rural departments were combined with "city" departments, thus the distinction. Marion, IA, a good-sized city next to Cedar Rapids, also has rural and city trucks.
I haven't a clue if this is the case here, but I've seen a variety of fire departments that have rigs that are funded through different budgets (town money, city money, county money), and those rigs are supposed to first-in to the areas which funded them. Perhaps the "rural" rigs were funded through some local rural co-op money? Just a thought....
Taylor Goodman Captain - Henrico County (VA) Division of Fire Fire Chief - Huguenot VFD, Powhatan, VA
Quote:I haven't a clue if this is the case here, but I've seen a variety of fire departments that have rigs that are funded through different budgets (town money, city money, county money), and those rigs are supposed to first-in to the areas which funded them. Perhaps the "rural" rigs were funded through some local rural co-op money? Just a thought....
This is how my dept is in S.E. Iowa. The city paid for our gear, station, 2 engines, the tower, heavy rescue , command vehicle stuff like that. We have a county fire board that is over the townships that we cover. They paid for 1 engine, 2 brush trucks, 2 tankers and the gator. They contract with the city for fire protection. We can take any truck to any call but we do have 1 engine that is our first out for rural fires and 1 that is first out for city fires.
Quote:This is how my dept is in S.E. Iowa. The city paid for our gear, station, 2 engines, the tower, heavy rescue , command vehicle stuff like that. We have a county fire board that is over the townships that we cover. They paid for 1 engine, 2 brush trucks, 2 tankers and the gator. They contract with the city for fire protection. We can take any truck to any call but we do have 1 engine that is our first out for rural fires and 1 that is first out for city fires.
There's a fair amount of this in Illinois too. A city department is contracted by a rural fire district for the manning and so forth, and there are city and rural rigs paid for by the separate entities.
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