INTRODUCTION
This website is my scrapbook of info about Public Safety Agencies around the world. I hope you find it useful. Peter Sz
All entries can be found under a Country name - or under WORLDWIDE - or here on the front page - (as of Nov 11 2012 and Oct 8 2023, there are approximately 100 Subpages) - menu is at upper left hand corner / left side
For USA information - please see - https://sites.google.com/site/usapublicsafety/
USA Public Safety Blog - by Zerg90 - https://publicsafetyusa.blogspot.com/ - approx 10 posts per day regarding public safety
Worldwide listing of emergency telephone numbers - docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hiBkHq1D223zDpVpKWpgLCl0Z6vwYCSMsKjnNfNhiPE/edit?usp=sharing - from zerg90 - 6/1/2025
Worldwide listing of emergency telephone numbers from Wikipedia - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emergency_telephone_numbers - 6/1/2025
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3 INTERESTING ITEMS OF NOTE .. then miscellaneous stuff
Fire extinguisher hand grenade youtu.be/yShuFgA-Jtk
Compressed air foam firefighting system (CAFS) in Sports Utility Vehicle - https://web.archive.org/web/20201119234503if_/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx3a9Ndrl9U&feature=youtu.be - this is the YouTube video archived at archive.org - 11/19/2020
older links to CAFS story .... https://youtu.be/Cx3a9Ndrl9U - CAFS in SUV - video from 2015 - http://www.statter911.com/2015/08/26/iowa-city-outfits-police-with-two-firefighting-suvs/ - Cedar Falls Iowa implementation - https://web.archive.org/web/2015*/https://kwwl.com/story/29878994/2015/08/25/cedar-falls-police-department-equipped-to-fight-fires
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XXX - https://www.PublicSafety.us - new URL for the USA Public Safety Blog - Dec 26 2017 - [ url seems to be broken july16 2018 - why?] - XXX
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Online maps which show fire stations
www.openstreetmap.org has fire stations ... look for small flames on map .... you can right click on fire station and click source info for details ... you can also drag pointer onto station location ... 5/29/2022
www.openfiremap.de/ ... has fire stations for Germany,Switzerland, and Austria ... 5/29/2022
http://wikimapia.org/ - enter "fire service" in search box
Google Maps - place the map in desired location - type "fire station" into search box - click on "fire station near ....." at the bottom
Bing and Mapquest might show fire stations also ... maybe Apple Maps also
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Here are 3 quick items of general interest
WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU CALL 911
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General international information
https://fire-engine-photos.com - fire apparatus photos from around the world
https://sarcontacts.info/ - contact info for coast guards around the world - presented by Halifax Canada coast guard
https://www.reddit.com/r/Firefighting/
World Fire Statistics - yearly reports
https://www.genevaassociation.org/ - enter FIRE into the search box - they have World Fire Statistics newsletters going back to at least 2003 - 5/27/2015
Basic death rate information - worldwide
Worldwide - disaster prevention is abysmal - March 2014
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[ Note - on this website - "fire department" = an organization = fire service = fire brigade = corps de bomberos / bombers / bombeiros = cuerpo de bombeiros = pompiers = feuerwehr = brandweer ]
[ Note - on this website - a "fire station" is a building or structure - (except in Japan where a "fire station" is an organizational element / a battalion) ]