2009 National Run Survey - Busiest Station

For the 29th year, the career fire service takes to the pages of Firehouse® Magazine to share and compare statistics about company and department activity levels, funding, staffing and pay. A total of 287 fire departments took part in this year’s survey, representing 47 states, the District of Columbia and six Canadian provinces. The departments represented in this latest survey protect 78,613,514 people, and they have budgets totaling nearly $14 billion (budgets are listed in millions of dollars).