Today I spent a little time digging up information on fire departments
in Walker County Alabama.
1.Searching for "Walker County Alabama Fire Departments" at Google
Search gets us a list of 27 FDs from the County 911 Center -
https://www.walker911.org/index.php/agencies
The Alabama State Forestry Dept also provides a list of 27 FDs -
http://www.forestry.state.al.us/fire_department_listing.aspx?bv=1&s=10
2. FireDepartment.net is missing 7 FDs but it does indicate some
substations - Boldo has 2 stations - Jasper has 3 stations - Curry has
2 stations - Saragoosa has 2 stations
3. HomeTownLocator.com is missing 1 FD - but shows 2 stations for Mt
Zion FD (which FireDepartment.net does not show) - HTL only shows 2
FDs with more than 1 station
4. Radio Reference has no fire station info
5. FCC info might have 6 or 7 FDs with local radio licenses - but
nothing says they will have a fire station address listed - even
though often they do
6. eVoter confirmed several fire station locations - they are used as
voting places
7. Google Maps has 17 correct fire station markers and maybe 4 bad map
markers (one is a closed FD I think)
8. I dont bother with the US Fire Administration FD Census or whatever
they call it - the info seems to be very bad usually - many missing
FDs - no indication of sub stations any more
9. There is a GPS website that boasts maybe 1300 fire stations in
Alabama - but they dont seem to have any sub stations
10. Possibly I could dig up a little more info at the County Assesor
or County Clerk or County GIS website - I have not checked them
recently
If anyone knows of a better way of digging up this info - please drop me a note.
( this is pretty typical across the USA - very very few counties have
a comprehensive countywide list of fire stations online )