Meet Raleigh’s new (probationary) firefighters, who graduated on January 13, 2021, from Recruit Academy 45. The twenty-seven week academy started in April 2020. Their training included a number of modifications due to COVID conditions, including condensing the program from 32 to 27 weeks. The graduation was also held outdoors, for the first-time in decades and …
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January 23 This meeting is a must-listen for anyone interested in the nuts ‘n’ bolts of the county fire service, as members received the long-cooking recommendations for a county-wide standard of fire service response, for all departments serving unincorporated areas, e.g. all except Raleigh and RDU. Was two years in the making by the commission’s …
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Here are the numbers for the Raleigh Fire Department in 2020, unit runs and total calls. See prior years, from 1993 forward, in this PDF document. Total Calls – 42,144 Total Runs – 62,725 E1 – 1,393 E2 – 2,084 E3 – 2,403 E4 – 1,245 E5 – 1,003 E6 – 991 Sq7 – …