Powerful but precarious: cracks in the foundation of fire and emergency services in Canada
The climate crisis, health-care crisis, and personnel shortages in Canada's fire departments are converging, causing increasing strain on Canada's fire-fighting capacity.
Canadians are often surprised when they learn that the majority of the country’s fire departments are volunteer. While this is not new, fire chiefs across the country have been increasingly concerned about rising call volumes, decreasing numbers of firefighters, and mounti...
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