fireguy43

There could be more, but ONE is minimum manning. You also need back-ups to cover vacations, sick time, etc.
In a high trivia area some Depts run full company of know-it-alls. You've seen them. They show up at your job, rate you on a scale of 10, and tell you how THEY would have put the fire out.
Lawyers don't count...different category, not covered under the manning clause.
While we're at it, there's another firehouse group that is actually saving their cities some money, Cities across the nation are removing the sirens from their apparatus. This is because of the large numbers of guys who WHINE all the way to the fire.