Love this video it’s so good to see your back at it with awesome content! Wishing you and the channel continued success in 2025 and thank you so much for all the effort you put into your channel. As a sidenote, I hope you keep the awesome all about Charlotte fire department content coming as well.⭐️🇺🇸🚒👨🚒
Thanks for the update on the new 9th Battalion. It is great to the Charlotte fire department expanding and growing as well adding fire companies and new stations. I am also most impressed with Charlotte putting 4 new Elevating Platforms in service considering that for a while they didn't have any Elevating Platforms in service. I am looking forward to seeing further updates in the future.
The city is continuing to grow, meaning the department has to grow to meet demand. They are starting to diversify their fleet, which has both advantages and disadvantages. I am working a video about their new tillers.
You may already have something in the works, but I think it would be neat to piggyback on this video and expand on the areas covered in each battalion response area ie neighborhoods, landmarks exc. I say this because the recent department yearbook touched on this from a station perspective and I thought it was pretty interesting. Just an idea I wanted to put out there for you to consider nothing more or less and I appreciate all you do!👨🚒🚒🇺🇸⭐️
Of course, the new battalion line companies run a lot of calls together and their current batt configuration so it would only make sense to put them all together in the same battalion geographically
I do have one small question in regards to these changes if you know and if not, that’s fine. It’s just a question out of curiosity more less. Do you know what will happen to the current response areas of the stations being reassigned to different battalions? I assume probably just redistributing those current first do areas to other stations within the same battalions? On a sidenote, based on what I know about the current geographic response areas, the designation of the reassignment of some of the stations into different battalions make very logical sense to me.⭐️🇺🇸 example I know station 12 currently runs a lot of calls with Stations 10 and two already same goes for station 31 currently running a lot of calls with second battalion companies. I have always been confused as to why station 40 is not currently in battalion for anyway. and station five runs a lot of calls with battalion one companies as it is and station 14’s response area pick up close to station 6 ‘s first due area. So I’m proud to say I believe they got it right and put a lot of logical fault into redrawing the battalion lines geographically.⭐️🇺🇸🚒👨🚒
The response areas for each station won't change with the battalion realignment. They are set up based on response times. Essentially they are set up so that every city address belongs to the station that it is closest to. Areas will only change when a new station goes into service. For example, when 45 goes into service, the boundaries will essentially be the halfway points (in travel time) between 45 and the surrounding stations (22, 27, 34 and 15). The battalions are more about geographic 'consistency' and company distribution and equity, so the BCs have even workloads and resources. Dispatching is strictly based on distance (closest companies) and battalion boundaries are frequently crossed, especially in the area of uptown.
Love this video it’s so good to see your back at it with awesome content! Wishing you and the channel continued success in 2025 and thank you so much for all the effort you put into your channel. As a sidenote, I hope you keep the awesome all about Charlotte fire department content coming as well.⭐️🇺🇸🚒👨🚒
Awesome video! looking forward to these new changes!
Thanks for the update on the new 9th Battalion. It is great to the Charlotte fire department expanding and growing as well adding fire companies and new stations. I am also most impressed with Charlotte putting 4 new Elevating Platforms in service considering that for a while they didn't have any Elevating Platforms in service. I am looking forward to seeing further updates in the future.
The city is continuing to grow, meaning the department has to grow to meet demand. They are starting to diversify their fleet, which has both advantages and disadvantages. I am working a video about their new tillers.
You said Battalion 5 works out of Station 25. Should be Battalion 6. I enjoy the videos. Keep 'em coming.
Dang. It would be right if there wasn't at least one mistake in my videos.
You may already have something in the works, but I think it would be neat to piggyback on this video and expand on the areas covered in each battalion response area ie neighborhoods, landmarks exc. I say this because the recent department yearbook touched on this from a station perspective and I thought it was pretty interesting. Just an idea I wanted to put out there for you to consider nothing more or less and I appreciate all you do!👨🚒🚒🇺🇸⭐️
Of course, the new battalion line companies run a lot of calls together and their current batt configuration so it would only make sense to put them all together in the same battalion geographically
I do have one small question in regards to these changes if you know and if not, that’s fine. It’s just a question out of curiosity more less. Do you know what will happen to the current response areas of the stations being reassigned to different battalions? I assume probably just redistributing those current first do areas to other stations within the same battalions? On a sidenote, based on what I know about the current geographic response areas, the designation of the reassignment of some of the stations into different battalions make very logical sense to me.⭐️🇺🇸 example I know station 12 currently runs a lot of calls with Stations 10 and two already same goes for station 31 currently running a lot of calls with second battalion companies. I have always been confused as to why station 40 is not currently in battalion for anyway. and station five runs a lot of calls with battalion one companies as it is and station 14’s response area pick up close to station 6 ‘s first due area. So I’m proud to say I believe they got it right and put a lot of logical fault into redrawing the battalion lines geographically.⭐️🇺🇸🚒👨🚒
The response areas for each station won't change with the battalion realignment. They are set up based on response times. Essentially they are set up so that every city address belongs to the station that it is closest to. Areas will only change when a new station goes into service. For example, when 45 goes into service, the boundaries will essentially be the halfway points (in travel time) between 45 and the surrounding stations (22, 27, 34 and 15). The battalions are more about geographic 'consistency' and company distribution and equity, so the BCs have even workloads and resources. Dispatching is strictly based on distance (closest companies) and battalion boundaries are frequently crossed, especially in the area of uptown.
@ thanks for the clarification. I appreciate it and all you do enjoy your Sunday as well.⭐️👨🚒🚒