Looking for stats on full time paid departments

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Permalink Reply by FETC on June 19, 2009 at 3:38pm

Paul,

I can't think of a fairly large city in which they are all volunteer and I live in the northeast. Some are paid on call, and many have gone to an on-duty per diem staff (no benefits) but population is not the sole driving factor. NFPA has a figure in which it is calculated on the volume of calls verse your on duty staffing.

Most small towns around here that run EMS transports from within the fire department seem to be able to have 2 personnel on duty Monday through Friday days if they have the magic number of 1000+ calls and reap the rewards of ambulance transport billing reimbursements.

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Permalink Reply by Robert Owens on June 19, 2009 at 4:33pm

Typically here in VA once the population of a county reaches 95,000 they begin som sort of paid service either full time or combination....thats been pretty much the model but it all depends on call load in my opinion....you could have a smaller community that only runs 100 calls a year but if the volunteers only answer 20 of them then you need paid assistance.

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