NFPA 1720, Standard for the Organization and Deployment of Fire Suppression Operations, Emergency Medical Operations, and Special Operations to the Public by Volunteer Fire Departments
These standards outline minimum staffing requirements for fire departments. But which one should your department follow? Is your department career, combination, or volunteer? For this answer we must look in the definition section of NFPA 1720. Here we see the magic number, 85%.
If the department personnel is comprised of 85% or more volunteer members then the department is classified as volunteer. Fire departments composed of less than 85% majority of either volunteers or career personnel is classified as a combination department. Volunteer and combination department must comply with the staffing and organization requirements of NFPA 1720. Departments having greater than 85% career personnel must comply with the staffing and organizational requirements of NFPA 1710.
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