Queen Anne's County
Context: 9 volunteer fire & EMS departments. These names explain governance/deployment only — this jurisdiction is assessed once, not once per department or company.
NFPA Staffing Benchmark
Staffing-only · not a response-time or legal assessmentSection VI.A: Engine — '(3) 1 Qualified Driver/Operator, 2 Qualified Firefighters'; Aerial — same; Rescue — same. Signed by Commission Chairman Raymond C. Aaron, Sr. Scope (§I): 'This policy applies to all Queen Anne's County Fire service personnel' — applies uniformly across all 9 volunteer departments. 'Qualified Firefighter' is defined (§IV) as MFRI Firefighter I or equivalent, capable of IDLH entry — a genuine minimum-response-staffing standard, not a membership count.
On-duty staffing is disclosed, but the NFPA 1750:2026 volunteer-department provisions depend on demand-zone/assembled-force criteria not assessed in this baseline-company-staffing v1 — so no meets/below verdict is published.
- Higher-risk (zone/hazard) staffing requirement not assessed
- Effective response force not assessed
- Response-time performance not assessed
Volunteer-department assessment additionally requires demand-zone / assembled-force criteria, not assessed here. Higher zone/risk company minimums (elevated 5, maximal 6), the effective response force, and response-time objectives were not assessed.
NFPA 1750:2026 is a consensus deployment standard, not automatically a legal mandate. A department is legally bound only where its Authority Having Jurisdiction has adopted it. This assesses baseline company staffing only — not higher zone/risk staffing, effective response force, or response-time performance — and is not a legal finding.