Wednesday, August 8, 2018

Fire Station: Milnesand, New Mexico

 
Milnesand Volunteer Fire Department has two stations, the one above, and one a few miles away. According to its website, "... the department has 14 volunteer Firemen and EMT’s and our fire district covers 120 square miles of vast dry land farm and ranch land in Eastern New Mexico. The Milnesand Volunteer Fire Department response zone covers an area of 600 square miles and serves a population of 200 in the response zone. There are approximately 375 structures (homes, barns, shops) spread over the 600 square miles of the fire response zone."
Of the 1,160,450 firefighters in the United States, 814,880 are volunteers (NFPA).

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