The Pullman, WA, Fire Department is a combination agency with 31 career firefighters and 20 volunteer firefighters, protecting a population of 31,000.
Firehouse®Magazine and Volunteer & Combination Officers Section (VCOS) of the International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC) have compiled the fourth annual Combination Fire Department Run Survey, featuring statistics on apparatus fleets, budgets, membership and 2013 fire and EMS calls. We thank VCOS and the section chairman, Chief Timothy Wall, for their assistance in compiling the data, and we thank the chiefs and departments that participated.