r/Firefighting • u/MostBoringStan • Jan 29 '25

Photos The tiny station where I volunteer

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I mentioned it in another post and somebody asked to see it, so here it is.

Big enough for our 2 trucks, our gear, a couple tiny washrooms, office for the chief, and a table for our meetings. If the entire crew shows up for a meeting, there isn't much more room.

We have about 10 volunteers, and cover an area with a radius of about 50km. Even with that large of an area, we only get maybe 10 calls in a year, and the last year was even slower with only 7.

There are a lot of posts with nice shiny trucks in front of nice big stations, so I thought I'd share what the other side of the spectrum is like.

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u/newenglandpolarbear radio go beep Jan 30 '25

Looks like a nice cozy place! when you guys do get a call, do you generally get a decent size crew to show up?

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u/MostBoringStan Jan 30 '25

It depends what dispatch says is going on. If the dispatch text is something clearly not very serious, then usually about 2-3 show up. In the summer, when there was a serious accident with 2 vehicles on fire, we had 8 guys show up.

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u/newenglandpolarbear radio go beep Jan 30 '25

That's pretty solid!