Polk County Fire Rescue provides Advanced Life Support transport to all residents and visitors of Polk County. It also provides fire suppression, rescue services and fire prevention services to all of unincorporated Polk County and the municipalities of Eagle Lake, Polk City, Mulberry, Lake Hamilton and Hillcrest Heights. (Pulled directly from the departments website.The 1st sentence should tell you everything you need to know about this “Fire Department”!)
A Fire Department in name only. EMS transport is the name of the game here. Training, hands-on and computer-based, is mainly medically oriented. Captains make questionable fire ground tactical decisions, engineers can’t pump fires, and firefighters start their career with years on the ambulance and not on fire apparatus.
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A Fire Department in name only. EMS transport is the name of the game here. Training, hands-on and computer-based, is mainly medically oriented. Captains make questionable fire ground tactical decisions, engineers can’t pump fires, and firefighters start their career with years on the ambulance and not on fire apparatus.