Suppression
The District's Suppression personnel are divided into three platoons, A, B and C. Each platoon is commanded by a Battalion Chief who is responsible for the workings of his individual shift, communicating with the other shifts’ Battalion Chiefs to coordinate the continuity of ongoing projects and day-to-day operations. Battalion Chiefs work directly with the station Captains, who head the three or four member companies assigned to a station.
The District’s Suppression personnel include 3 Battalion Chiefs, 39 Captains, 42 Engineers, 55 Firefighters (50 which are Paramedics), and 9 Dispatchers. All Suppression personnel, excluding Dispatchers, are certified EMT-1A's and State Certified Firefighter I and II. The crew of every engine, truck, and ambulance includes a Contra Costa County accredited Paramedic.
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Famous quotes containing the word suppression:
“... peace produced by suppression is neither natural nor desirable.”
—Anna Julia Cooper (1859–1964)
“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)
“A state that denies its citizens their basic rights becomes a danger to its neighbors as well: internal arbitrary rule will be reflected in arbitrary external relations. The suppression of public opinion, the abolition of public competition for power and its public exercise opens the way for the state power to arm itself in any way it sees fit.... A state that does not hesitate to lie to its own people will not hesitate to lie to other states.”
—Václav Havel (b. 1936)