Fire Suppression
Many of the National Park Service (NPS) sites in New York and new Jersey maintain structural firfighters or Wildland firefighters depending on the type of the site.
- Structural Fire Suppression for the Statue of Liberty (Liberty Island) and Ellis Island is provided by the National Park Service which created the Statue Of Liberty Fire Brigade in 2011. The Statue Of Liberty Fire Brigade consists of a crew of federal NPS firefighters who are trained and certified as Structural Firefighter I, Structural Firefighter II and Wildland Firefighters.
- Fire Suppression for Sandy Hook National Recreation area is provided by the National Park Service Sandy Hook Fire Brigade and an NPS Wildland Fire Crew with Wildfire Brush Truck is maintained year round in Staten Island for the Staten Island Gateway Sites. For additional wildland fire support on large fires (such as the fires at Great Kills Park in recent years) firefighters from the Statue Of Liberty Fire brigade and the Sandy Hook Fire Department have responded to supplement the NPS wildland firefighters assisgned to Staten Island
- Fire suppression for Governors Island is provided by the Fire Department of the City of New York
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Famous quotes containing the words fire and/or suppression:
“We could not well camp higher, for want of fuel; and the trees here seemed so evergreen and sappy, that we almost doubted if they would acknowledge the influence of fire; but fire prevailed at last, and blazed here, too, like a good citizen of the world.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone believing it to be God. I plead not for the suppression of reason, but for a due recognition of that in us which sanctifies reason.”
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869–1948)