WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
● How many employees and trucks did the original fire patrol have?
Answer: 1 employee and 1 truck
● Whos direction was the original fire patrol under? Answer: The
Agriculture Department
● When did the patrol expand? Answer: 1957
● How many employees did the patrol have in 1957 Answer: 51
employees
● How many stations did the patrol have in 1957 Answer: 10 stations
● How many apparatus did the patrol have in 1957? Answer: 12 pieces
● When did the patrol become a division of Dade County Public Safety?
Answer: 1958
, ● When did the inaugural class graduate and how many firefighters?
Answer: 1960 with 15 firefighters
● When was Metropolitan of Dade County Fire Department (MDFD)
created? Answer: 1965
● When was the word rescue implemented to the name? Answer: 1973
● When were departments trucks lime green color seen on response
vehicles? Answer: 1974
● How many calls did Fire and Rescue Units respond to in 2016?
Answer: 280,000
● What percent of the calls were medical rescue calls in 2016? Answer:
80%
● How many employees does MDFR have? Answer: 2,000
● How many residents and miles does MDFR cover? Answer: 2 million
distributed over 1,924 miles
● How many stations and battalions are MDFR broken into? Answer:
74 stations with 14 Battalions