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What limited municipal firefighting capacity? Firefighters hardly fight any (urban) fires these days, because of better building codes and fewer people smoking.
by TulliusCicero 5y ago
What limited municipal firefighting capacity? Firefighters hardly fight any (urban) fires these days, because of better building codes and fewer people smoking.
- hammock 5y agoWhere do you live? Do your firefighters just sit around taking no calls all day? Where I live (top 5 city in the US, with some of the most restrictive fire building codes) the average firehouse gets 80+ calls a day.
- Talanes 5y agoWhat percent of those calls are actually necessary calls though? I used to watch a fire truck roll up at least once a week to check up on the same dude napping on the sidewalk. Not to try and say that the majority of their calls are like that, but that does suggest a system with at least some spare capacity.
- hammock 5y agoWhat percent of hospital stays are "actually necessary"? Who do you want to decide that?
- Talanes 5y ago>Who do you want to decide that? The hospitals, I guess? I'm making inferences from the judgement-making of...whoever, not second-guessing them. If anything, I'm giving complete faith to the system here. My assumption is if they can send out a full fire-truck to respond to a call where clearly an ambulance would be sufficient, they're not doing it despite there also being a fire that needs response.
- Zircom 5y agoI doubt even 1/4 of those are actual fires, in my town firefighters show up to car crashes and heart attacks and shootings and all sorts of things that aren't on fire.
- Thorrez 5y agoIf one firehouse gets 80+ calls a day, 3000 calls per year nationwide is nothing.
- TulliusCicero 5y agoYes, but it's rare for one to be for a serious fire. Most firefighter calls these days are for medical issues.