Four Years Later - A Second Needs Assessment of the U.S. Fire Service: A Cooperative Study Authorized by U.S. Public Law 108-67, Title XXXVI (FA-303)

The 2005 Fire Service Needs Assessment Survey was conducted as a stratified random sample survey. The NFPA used its own list of local fire departments as the mailing list and sampling frame of all fire departments in the US that report on fire incidents attended. In all, 15,545 fire departments - just over half the total in NFPA Fire Service Inventory (FSI) database, including all departments protecting communities of at least 50,000 population - were mailed survey forms, and 4,709 responde...