The Keene Fire Department said it can now staff a third ambulance to help respond to increasing medical calls.

It has been a familiar pattern in the Newark Fire Department for decades: Increased overtime costs lead to reduced staffing ...

ONTARIO, Oregon — In the Oregon border city of Ontario, first responders are feeling the pinch of understaffing.

Ever since the Palo Alto Fire Department rolled out its ambulance service in 1974, its employees have distinguished ...

Staffing is critical, including the effect that it will have toward successfully suppressing the fire with the best outcome. Too many times, departments respond to a fire, size up the structure ...

maintain staffing for its peak-hour Medic 3 unit, and add a captain dedicated to fire prevention and community risk reduction. The task force will be made up of fire department leadership ...

The union representing the Canandaigua Fire Department said staffing issues made it difficult for firefighters to get to the victim of the fire in late November. The Canandaigua city manager ...

Winston-Salem Fire Department's minimum staffing number went from 89 firefighters citywide to 79 on any given day, all in an effort to balance the budget. The department said there was too much ...

CINCINNATI — Both chiefs of the Cincinnati Fire and Police ... Frank McKinley shared that staffing issues are one challenge that plague their respective departments. Hear Theetge and McKinley's ...

Their concerns center around slow response times and limited staffing but the fire department is now pushing back. Ellsworth ...

For rural fire departments across the state, the biggest issue right now is staffing. In 2020, the NFPA reported approximately 676,900 volunteer fire fighters, a six percent decrease from the ...