In addition, the Fire Department is responsible for the separate but related functions of responding to calls regarding building collapses, hazardous material incidents, vehicular accidents, water main breaks, utility emergencies, and other non-fire emergencies."" (FDNY.com, Mission).
Firefighters fight fires to save lives and property while providing pre-hospital emergency medical service. After fires are extinguished an investigation on the cause and origin are made. There were 7,937 potential arson investigations done in New York City. Firefighters do a lot for the public such as regulating safety codes for the City, 181,328 fire code regulatory inspections were done for this city. In order to educate the residents of this city on the causes and effects of fire, the agency conducted 3,940 fire safety presentations and events. The Fire Department is so vital to New York City that without an agency of its kind then there would be chaos and instability making the city uninhabitable. The fire department is here to protect us, not only from fires but also from other dangerous and hazardous situations. "In New York alone the fire department extinguished 60,339 fires while 93,295 fire apparatus responses to 449,296 fires, non-.
fires emergency and medical calls- (FDNY.com). Firefighters are like warriors that must go into battle. Brave as they are, firefighters continue to risk their lives to save others. The fire department is one of the most important agencies and is considered very necessary in New York. The dense population and the massive structures in which we live and work in are fragile to the fact that fire can tear these structures down and hurt people at the same time making the Fire Department essential to New York.
The structure and ranking of the Fire Department is not too protracted. The Fire Department's ranking goes as follows: .
All rankings except for the Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner are selected through an examination and veteran status.
