How do military fire departments work?
Military departments are often a combination of military personnel and civilians. Of course this depends upon the situation. There will be less civilians in a war zone than at a military base in the states. Some bases may have only civilian personnel. Some may have only military. Update: Having said that there are fewer civilian firefighters in a combat zone, I should probably correct something. At this moment there are hundreds of civilian firefighters in Iraq who are employed by the U.S. There are approximately 30 fire stations being operated by a U.S. company in that combat zone.
