{"id":5308,"date":"2012-07-20T09:00:50","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T13:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=5308"},"modified":"2012-07-20T02:45:20","modified_gmt":"2012-07-20T06:45:20","slug":"fire-fighters-no-longer-fight-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/fire-fighters-no-longer-fight-fires\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire Fighters No Longer Fight Fires?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/072012_0607_FireFighter1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"417\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Alex Tabarrok has a fascinating article where he looks at the evolution of fire-fighters in America. Highlights include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In the past 35 years the number of fires have rapidly declined while the number of firefighters have even more rapidly increased.<\/li>\n<li>Every time a fire truck is called it costs around $3,500 \u2013 and 25 calls in 24 hours is not uncommon.<\/li>\n<li>The number of false alarms has doubled.<\/li>\n<li>To give firefighters something to do they&#8217;re increasingly involved in activities such as responding to medical emergencies, dealing with gang violence, and even teaching.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read more including many more details, several informative and fascinating graphs, the state of volunteer firefighters in the United States, why it&#8217;s hard to negotiate with firefighters, how Washington State is changing how it does things, what else firefighters do with their down time, why you can&#8217;t just have them lounging about, and the role of unions, click <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2012\/07\/firefighters-dont-fight-fires.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2012\/07\/firefighters-dont-fight-fires.html\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Tabarrok has a fascinating article where he looks at the evolution of fire-fighters in America. Highlights include: In the past 35 years the number of fires have rapidly declined while the number of firefighters have even more rapidly increased. Every time a fire truck is called it costs around $3,500 \u2013 and 25 calls [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/072012_0607_FireFighter1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5308"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5314,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5308\/revisions\/5314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}