Why do so many fire vehicles and firefighters respond to simple incidents?
Fire Department personnel are dispatched according to the information received by the 9-1-1 operator. In a fire, for instance, there are numerous tasks that must be done simultaneously in order to stop the fire quickly. These tasks include, fire attack, ventilation (which releases the hot, toxic gases in the structure), water supply, Rapid Intevention Team (which rescues an interior crew should they become entrapped), and command. If the incident truly is simple and does not require all of the resources originally dispatched, the first arriving crew can cancel the other responding units. Fire personnel respond as fast as we are allowed, prepared to encounter the worst. The winner in these situations will always be the citizen who needs help.
