Dekalb County Fire Department
Firefighters have been needed since the beginning of time. Over time fire departments have been improving their strategies every day for the safety of their men and women. I am going to discuss the history, careers, vehicles and equipment, and the hiring process for the Dekalb County Fire Department.
The first recorded organized firefighting service dates to the Roman Republic in the first century BC. Since then the evolution of firefighting has changed drastically. In 2010 dekalbcountyga.gov shares that the first fire department in Dekalb County “began with a single firefighter in 1934. J.V. Draughon in Nashville, TN, offered Delkab’s citizens fire suppression. In 1937 the county bought Draughon’s operation and created the Dekalb Fire Department. The first fire station was on North Decatur Road.” The stations included a stove, four beds, and six-cylinder fire engine with a 250-gallon tank. Dekalb County now has 630 plus men and women and …show more content…
I will now talk about the different vehicles and equipment that Dekalb provides. Each vehicle has its own purpose and job it’s used for. There are engines, tiller trucks, ambulances, air and light trucks, dive boost, heavy rescue trucks, and squad trucks. Each fire station isn’t going to have every one of these vehicles at the station. For example, at stations 23 in Dekalb there will only be one engine, a tiller truck, and a Battalion Chief that runs about the station. The equipment that the fire department will use can vary depending on what vehicles are at the station. For example, at station 23 in Dekalb County the equipment that is on the engine will be a pipe wrench, cardiac monitor, drug box, air packs, hacksaw, chainsaw, axes, pry bar, etc... On the tiller truck there will be a drug box, tool set, sledgehammer, bolt cutter, 14’, 28’, 35’, and 40’ ext. ladder, 16’ and 20’ roof ladder, water cans, gas cans,
Firefighters have been needed since the beginning of time. Over time fire departments have been improving their strategies every day for the safety of their men and women. I am going to discuss the history, careers, vehicles and equipment, and the hiring process for the Dekalb County Fire Department.
The first recorded organized firefighting service dates to the Roman Republic in the first century BC. Since then the evolution of firefighting has changed drastically. In 2010 dekalbcountyga.gov shares that the first fire department in Dekalb County “began with a single firefighter in 1934. J.V. Draughon in Nashville, TN, offered Delkab’s citizens fire suppression. In 1937 the county bought Draughon’s operation and created the Dekalb Fire Department. The first fire station was on North Decatur Road.” The stations included a stove, four beds, and six-cylinder fire engine with a 250-gallon tank. Dekalb County now has 630 plus men and women and …show more content…
I will now talk about the different vehicles and equipment that Dekalb provides. Each vehicle has its own purpose and job it’s used for. There are engines, tiller trucks, ambulances, air and light trucks, dive boost, heavy rescue trucks, and squad trucks. Each fire station isn’t going to have every one of these vehicles at the station. For example, at stations 23 in Dekalb there will only be one engine, a tiller truck, and a Battalion Chief that runs about the station. The equipment that the fire department will use can vary depending on what vehicles are at the station. For example, at station 23 in Dekalb County the equipment that is on the engine will be a pipe wrench, cardiac monitor, drug box, air packs, hacksaw, chainsaw, axes, pry bar, etc... On the tiller truck there will be a drug box, tool set, sledgehammer, bolt cutter, 14’, 28’, 35’, and 40’ ext. ladder, 16’ and 20’ roof ladder, water cans, gas cans,