Info on Halifax NS FD - Canada

[Peteri Szerlagi]

https://fire.fandom.com/wiki/Halifax_Regional_Fire_and_Emergency_Service

this info seems to be very accurate and up to date

1. many stations have engines and tankers - some stations have just 1
engine - some stations have just 1 tanker - at least 1 station just
has an aerial / quint

2. gonna guess that the units in the urban areas have 4 person crews

3. gonna guess that the "A" units are the 2nd out units - and they are
usually staffed by recalled or paid on call firefighters - not sure if
any of the career guys carry pagers / apps for off duty alerting or
not

4. not sure if they have minimum staffing requirements for the 'on
call' rigs - did hear radio traffic from 1 Rescue or Squad that was
responding with just 1 person on board - unknown if they retone /
repage / realert after 3 minutes or whatever

5. there might be a total of 4 regional PSAPs in Nova Scotia - with
fire calls and ambulance calls being forwarded via 1 button transfers

6. they have around 10 reserve pumpers / tankers + 5 reserve aerials

7. all aerials seem to be quints but with small water tanks

8. the closest hydrant to the fire start location might have been 3
miles away - with no other fire water supplies in the area -
apparently all the homes around there have wells and septic tanks -
most homes in the area have a culvert where their driveway meets the
roadway - they must get gullywashers from thunderstorms or hurricanes

9. seeing as how most stations have 2 pumpers - they were in a very
good position to send units from all 60 stations and still retain
excellent coverage - possibly they never staffed all of their
apparatus

10. google street view has coverage up to 1 block from fire start location

11. provincial forestry has 5 fire hueys based at shubenacadie - which
is maybe 10 minutes flight time away - how many of those helos were
staffed? when did they respond?

12. if 200 homes were destroyed - and each was valued at $1 million -
then common sense tells you that spending $199 million before the fire
would have been prudent - you could put a fire truck at every home in
Nova Scotia for $199 million - but the catch is - you never really
know when the big fire will break out - but I bet the next time
Halifax has a red flag event - they will have a lot more firefighters
on duty - unless they are a really really really bad FD