The Stamford Fire and Rescue Department (SFRD) provides fire suppression and rescue, as well as first-responder emergency medical services alongside five volunteer fire departments(Glenbrook, Belltown, Springdale, Turn of River, and Long Ridge) to the City of Stamford, Connecticut. The paid Stamford Fire and Rescue Department and the five all-volunteer fire departments protect a growing population of 125,109 residents living in 38 square miles.
Famous quotes containing the words fire and/or rescue:
“For it is a fire that, kindling its first embers in the narrow nook of a private bosom, caught from a wandering spark out of another private heart, glows and enlarges until it warms and beams upon multitudes of men and women, upon the universal heart of all, and so lights up the whole world and all nature with its generous flames.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“When in the sea-light every early game
Was played with love and, if death’s waters came,
You’d rescue me. How I would take you from,
Now, if I could, its whirling vacuum.”
—Howard Moss (b. 1922)