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A captain is typically in charge of a fire company, a group of firefighters who are assigned to the same fire apparatus. [1] The captain is responsible for the welfare and performance of the company's personnel and the maintenance of the apparatus. In a single-apparatus fire station, the captain is also the overall manager of the station. Fire ...
The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, colloquially known as Cal Fire, [3] is the fire department of the California Natural Resources Agency in the U.S. state of California. It is responsible for fire protection in various areas under state responsibility totaling 31 million acres, as well as the administration of the state ...
In many fire departments in the U.S., the captain is commonly the commander of a company and a lieutenant is the supervisor of the company's firefighters on shift. There is no state or federal rank structure for firefighters and each municipality or volunteer fire department creates and uses their own unique structure.
Los Angeles Fire Department captain Sheila Kelliher joined "The Story" to explain the difficulties facing firefighters as they work to extinguish the flames surrounding the city.
A station commander is an officer in charge of one or more fire stations, often referred to as a district chief or battalion chief in North America. If a battalion chief or district chief works out of a fire station, a captain or lieutenant is still usually the officer in charge of the day-to-day operations of the station.
Among those working around the clock to contain about 7,000 blazes in California are approximately 3,100 inmates trained as wildland firefighters.
On the evening of Tuesday, Jan. 7, Isaac Baeza — a fire captain for the San Bernardino/Inyo/Mono unit of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) — came home from ...
A company officer (CO) is the individual in charge of a crew of firefighters and their responding apparatus in the United States. Company Officers have different titles depending on the table of organization for their particular agency, but commonly used titles in the U.S. Fire Service include Lieutenant, Captain, Sergeant, or other ranks which reflect the paramilitary organization of most ...