Harvard's Fire Protection District consists of 47 trained firefighters, of which 22 are Emergency medical technicians and 14 are paramedics.
Shea is a trained firefighter.
Outside of politics, Trældal is a trained firefighter.
Other experts, though, cautioned that some combination of a fully-trained second unit and lesser trained firefighters would be the better alternative.
The RFD is an on-call department with trained firefighters.
This roll-out incorporated all 46 fire stations, 58 primary fire appliances and over 1300 trained firefighters.
The failure to increase sufficiently the number of trained, full-time firefighters constitutes a profound failure of the Forest Service to respond to worsening fire conditions.
It does not have enough trained firefighters and could not move excavators into the narrow streets to rescue those buried in the rubble, she said.
But during dry seasons, the service needs hundreds of trained firefighters who can be counted on to drop everything and come running.
Now, only 52 percent are reached in this time by either an ambulance or a truck with trained firefighters.