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29 Mars 2017
Chargés d'assurer la protection de la population des différents comtés du Massachusetts, les pompiers des différentes villes veillent en permanence à porter secours aux habitants de l'État.
Les pompiers professionnels sont représentés par 11 678 personnes et les pompiers volontaires sont 6451. Le plus important Fire Department (FD) du Massachusetts est celui de Boston, la capitale d'État, avec 1500 pompiers professionnels.
Les pompiers américains ont une relation privilégiée avec la population et organisent régulièrement des événements festifs et de sensibilisation du public; ils sont aussi souvent l'objet de séries télévisées.
Lors des interventions, les pompiers sont souvent amenés à coopérer avec les forces de police du Massachusetts.
Effectifs par comté
| Comté | Professionnels | Volontaires |
| Barnstable | 516 | 134 |
| Berkshire | 123 | 747 |
| Bristol | 873 | 436 |
| Dukes | 0 | 242 |
| Essex | 1213 | 560 |
| Franklin | 47 | 587 |
| Hampden | 788 | 445 |
| Hampshire | 176 | 445 |
| Middlesex | 2908 | 568 |
| Nantucket | 25 | 15 |
| Norfolk | 1263 | 219 |
| Plymouth | 824 | 486 |
| Suffolk | 1817 | 0 |
| Worcester | 1105 | 1567 |
Pour plus d'informations, caserne par caserne, vous pouvez consulter la liste ci-après.
| Comté | Ville | Professionnels | Volontaires |
| Barnstable | Barnstable | 18 | 0 |
| Barnstable | Bourne | 37 | 0 |
| Barnstable | Brewster | 12 | 0 |
| Barnstable | Centerville | 53 | 0 |
| Barnstable | Chatham | 27 | 0 |
| Barnstable | Cotuit | 10 | 0 |
| Barnstable | Eastham | 14 | 0 |
| Barnstable | Falmouth | 58 | 0 |
| Barnstable | Harwich | 33 | 0 |
| Barnstable | Hyannis | 54 | 0 |
| Barnstable | Mashpee | 32 | 0 |
| Barnstable | Orleans | 21 | 0 |
| Barnstable | Provincetown | 0 | 66 |
| Barnstable | Sandwich | 35 | 0 |
| Barnstable | Yarmouth | 60 | 0 |
| Barnstable | Truro | 0 | 18 |
| Barnstable | Wellfleet | 9 | 0 |
| Barnstable | West Barnstable | 5 | 50 |
| Barnstable | Dennis | 38 | 0 |
| Berkshire | Adams | 0 | 36 |
| Berkshire | Adams Forest | 0 | 25 |
| Berkshire | Becket | 0 | 27 |
| Berkshire | Cheshire | 0 | 50 |
| Berkshire | Clarksburg | 0 | 33 |
| Berkshire | Dalton | 2 | 35 |
| Berkshire | Florida | 0 | 30 |
| Berkshire | Alford | 0 | 10 |
| Berkshire | Hancock | 0 | 28 |
| Berkshire | Lanesborough | 0 | 25 |
| Berkshire | Lee | 0 | 53 |
| Berkshire | Lenox | 6 | 53 |
| Berkshire | Monterey | 0 | 18 |
| Berkshire | Great Barrington | 0 | 47 |
| Berkshire | New Ashford | 0 | 10 |
| Berkshire | North Adams | 24 | 0 |
| Berkshire | Otis | 0 | 17 |
| Berkshire | Peru | 0 | 15 |
| Berkshire | Pittsfield | 90 | 0 |
| Berkshire | Richmond | 0 | 21 |
| Berkshire | Sandisfield | 0 | 13 |
| Berkshire | Savoy | 0 | 10 |
| Berkshire | Sheffield | 0 | 32 |
| Berkshire | Egremont | 0 | 25 |
| Berkshire | New Marlborough | 0 | 32 |
| Berkshire | Tyringham | 0 | 30 |
| Berkshire | Washington | 0 | 6 |
| Berkshire | Williamstown | 1 | 28 |
| Berkshire | West Stockbrigde | 0 | 11 |
| Berkshire | Windsor | 0 | 27 |
| Bristol | Acushnet | 8 | 33 |
| Bristol | Attleboro | 84 | 0 |
| Bristol | Berkley | 3 | 52 |
| Bristol | Dartmouth | 1 | 27 |
| Bristol | Dighton | 6 | 30 |
| Bristol | Freetown | 9 | 25 |
| Bristol | Fairhaven | 23 | 19 |
| Bristol | Fall River | 175 | 0 |
| Bristol | Mansfield | 33 | 0 |
| Bristol | New Bedford | 199 | 0 |
| Bristol | North Attleborough | 55 | 7 |
| Bristol | Norton | 30 | 5 |
| Bristol | Raynham | 23 | 9 |
| Bristol | Rehoboth | 1 | 75 |
| Bristol | Seekonk | 26 | 9 |
| Bristol | Somerset | 29 | 0 |
| Bristol | Easton | 32 | 0 |
| Bristol | Swansea | 1 | 113 |
| Bristol | Taunton | 112 | 0 |
| Bristol | Westport | 23 | 32 |
| Dukes | Chilmark | 0 | 28 |
| Dukes | Gosnold | 0 | 8 |
| Dukes | Edgartown | 0 | 56 |
| Dukes | Aquinnah | 0 | 15 |
| Dukes | Oak Bluffs | 0 | 47 |
| Dukes | Tisbury | 0 | 45 |
| Dukes | West Tisbury | 0 | 43 |
| Essex | Amesbury | 34 | 0 |
| Essex | Andover | 70 | 0 |
| Essex | Beverly | 63 | 0 |
| Essex | Boxford | 3 | 47 |
| Essex | Danvers | 49 | 0 |
| Essex | Essex | 0 | 33 |
| Essex | Georgetown | 0 | 55 |
| Essex | Gloucester | 86 | 0 |
| Essex | Groveland | 0 | 42 |
| Essex | Haverhill | 104 | 16 |
| Essex | Ipswich | 18 | 19 |
| Essex | Lawrence | 72 | 0 |
| Essex | Lynn | 171 | 0 |
| Essex | Lynnfield | 7 | 36 |
| Essex | Manchester | 13 | 15 |
| Essex | Marblehaed | 42 | 0 |
| Essex | Merrimac | 3 | 42 |
| Essex | Methuen | 96 | 0 |
| Essex | Middleton | 9 | 23 |
| Essex | Nahant | 8 | 18 |
| Essex | Newbury | 2 | 40 |
| Essex | Newburyport | 32 | 0 |
| Essex | North Andover | 55 | 0 |
| Essex | Peabody | 102 | 0 |
| Essex | Rockport | 0 | 50 |
| Essex | Rowley | 3 | 24 |
| Essex | Salem | 82 | 0 |
| Essex | Salisbury | 5 | 13 |
| Essex | Saugus | 41 | 0 |
| Essex | Hamilton | 4 | 28 |
| Essex | Swampscott | 34 | 0 |
| Essex | Topsfield | 4 | 26 |
| Essex | Wenham | 1 | 33 |
| Franklin | Ashfield | 0 | 25 |
| Franklin | Bernardston | 0 | 26 |
| Franklin | Buckland | 0 | 15 |
| Franklin | Charlemont | 0 | 14 |
| Franklin | Colrain | 0 | 18 |
| Franklin | Conway | 0 | 22 |
| Franklin | Erving | 0 | 30 |
| Franklin | Gill | 0 | 20 |
| Franklin | Greenfield | 30 | 21 |
| Franklin | Hawley | 0 | 16 |
| Franklin | Heath | 0 | 18 |
| Franklin | Leverett | 0 | 12 |
| Franklin | Leyden | 0 | 18 |
| Franklin | Monroe | 0 | 12 |
| Franklin | Montague | 0 | 26 |
| Franklin | New Salem | 0 | 20 |
| Franklin | Northfield | 0 | 29 |
| Franklin | Orange | 5 | 35 |
| Franklin | Rowe | 0 | 20 |
| Franklin | Shelburn Falls | 0 | 21 |
| Franklin | Shelburn | 0 | 20 |
| Franklin | Shutesbury | 1 | 9 |
| Franklin | South Deerfield | 1 | 32 |
| Franklin | Sunderland | 1 | 24 |
| Franklin | Turners Falls | 9 | 20 |
| Franklin | Warwick | 0 | 12 |
| Franklin | Wendell | 0 | 12 |
| Franklin | Whately | 0 | 40 |
| Hampden | Agawam | 57 | 15 |
| Hampden | Blandford | 0 | 20 |
| Hampden | Bondsville | 0 | 26 |
| Hampden | Brimfield | 0 | 45 |
| Hampden | Chester | 0 | 17 |
| Hampden | Chicopee | 141 | 0 |
| Hampden | East Longmeadow | 8 | 29 |
| Hampden | Hampden | 0 | 38 |
| Hampden | Holland | 0 | 20 |
| Hampden | Holyoke | 125 | 0 |
| Hampden | Longmeadow | 21 | 5 |
| Hampden | Ludlow | 30 | 1 |
| Hampden | Monson | 4 | 50 |
| Hampden | Palmer | 3 | 30 |
| Hampden | Russell | 0 | 38 |
| Hampden | Southwick | 2 | 42 |
| Hampden | Springfield | 221 | 0 |
| Hampden | Three Rivers | 1 | 31 |
| Hampden | Tolland | 0 | 9 |
| Hampden | Wales | 0 | 23 |
| Hampden | West Springfield | 67 | 0 |
| Hampden | Westfield | 85 | 0 |
| Hampden | Wilbraham | 23 | 6 |
| Hampshire | Amherst | 40 | 58 |
| Hampshire | Belchertown | 2 | 48 |
| Hampshire | Chesterfield | 0 | 25 |
| Hampshire | Cummington | 0 | 16 |
| Hampshire | Easthampton | 23 | 0 |
| Hampshire | Goshen | 0 | 18 |
| Hampshire | Granby | 5 | 25 |
| Hampshire | Hadley | 0 | 28 |
| Hampshire | Hatfield | 1 | 22 |
| Hampshire | Huntington | 0 | 24 |
| Hampshire | Middlefield | 0 | 20 |
| Hampshire | Northampton | 72 | 0 |
| Hampshire | Pelham | 0 | 12 |
| Hampshire | Plainfield | 0 | 16 |
| Hampshire | South Hadley | 15 | 20 |
| Hampshire | Southampton | 0 | 27 |
| Hampshire | Ware | 18 | 25 |
| Hampshire | Westhampton | 0 | 29 |
| Hampshire | Worthington | 0 | 32 |
| Middlesex | Acton | 40 | 2 |
| Middlesex | Arlington | 85 | 0 |
| Middlesex | Ashby | 0 | 30 |
| Middlesex | Ashland | 18 | 6 |
| Middlesex | Ayer | 12 | 33 |
| Middlesex | Bedford | 26 | 10 |
| Middlesex | Billerica | 75 | 0 |
| Middlesex | Boxborough | 5 | 30 |
| Middlesex | Burlington | 57 | 0 |
| Middlesex | Cambridge | 280 | 0 |
| Middlesex | Carlisle | 0 | 27 |
| Middlesex | Chelmsford | 57 | 0 |
| Middlesex | Concord | 38 | 1 |
| Middlesex | Devens | 21 | 0 |
| Middlesex | Dracut | 37 | 1 |
| Middlesex | Everett | 100 | 0 |
| Middlesex | Framingham | 148 | 0 |
| Middlesex | Groton | 4 | 41 |
| Middlesex | Holliston | 1 | 48 |
| Middlesex | Hopkinton | 24 | 10 |
| Middlesex | Hudson | 34 | 15 |
| Middlesex | Lexington | 54 | 0 |
| Middlesex | Lincoln | 10 | 10 |
| Middlesex | Littleton | 5 | 45 |
| Middlesex | Lowell | 201 | 0 |
| Middlesex | Malden | 107 | 0 |
| Middlesex | Marlborough | 77 | 0 |
| Middlesex | Maynard | 20 | 2 |
| Middlesex | Medford | 122 | 0 |
| Middlesex | Melrose | 53 | 0 |
| Middlesex | Natick | 84 | 0 |
| Middlesex | Newton | 184 | 0 |
| Middlesex | North Reading | 20 | 11 |
| Middlesex | Pepperell | 4 | 44 |
| Middlesex | Reading | 47 | 0 |
| Middlesex | Sherborn | 0 | 49 |
| Middlesex | Shirley | 7 | 14 |
| Middlesex | Somerville | 152 | 0 |
| Middlesex | Stoneham | 35 | 0 |
| Middlesex | Stow | 6 | 45 |
| Middlesex | Sudbury | 34 | 1 |
| Middlesex | Tewksbury | 50 | 0 |
| Middlesex | Townsend | 4 | 30 |
| Middlesex | Tyngsborough | 5 | 33 |
| Middlesex | Wakefield | 49 | 0 |
| Middlesex | Waltham | 173 | 0 |
| Middlesex | Watertown | 92 | 0 |
| Middlesex | Wayland | 25 | 10 |
| Middlesex | Westford | 39 | 15 |
| Middlesex | Weston | 30 | 5 |
| Middlesex | Wilmington | 40 | 0 |
| Middlesex | Winchester | 46 | 0 |
| Middlesex | Woburn | 71 | 0 |
| Nantucket | Nantucket | 25 | 15 |
| Norfolk | Avon | 8 | 22 |
| Norfolk | Bellingham | 21 | 4 |
| Norfolk | Braintree | 88 | 0 |
| Norfolk | Brookline | 161 | 0 |
| Norfolk | Canton | 52 | 1 |
| Norfolk | Dedham | 62 | 0 |
| Norfolk | Dover | 1 | 35 |
| Norfolk | Foxborough | 30 | 5 |
| Norfolk | Franklin | 48 | 0 |
| Norfolk | Holbrook | 21 | 4 |
| Norfolk | Medfield | 9 | 20 |
| Norfolk | Medway | 3 | 42 |
| Norfolk | Millis | 3 | 33 |
| Norfolk | Milton | 55 | 0 |
| Norfolk | Needham | 65 | 0 |
| Norfolk | Norfolk | 13 | 6 |
| Norfolk | Norwood | 59 | 0 |
| Norfolk | Plainville | 23 | 20 |
| Norfolk | Quincy | 188 | 0 |
| Norfolk | Randolph | 53 | 0 |
| Norfolk | Sharon | 22 | 6 |
| Norfolk | Stoughton | 53 | 0 |
| Norfolk | Walpole | 34 | 4 |
| Norfolk | Wellesley | 55 | 0 |
| Norfolk | Westwood | 30 | 0 |
| Norfolk | Weymouth | 88 | 0 |
| Norfolk | Wrentham | 18 | 17 |
| Plymouth | Abington | 22 | 0 |
| Plymouth | Bridgewater | 38 | 0 |
| Plymouth | Brockton | 170 | 0 |
| Plymouth | Carver | 2 | 70 |
| Plymouth | Duxbury | 24 | 12 |
| Plymouth | East Bridgewater | 22 | 5 |
| Plymouth | Halifax | 4 | 28 |
| Plymouth | Hanover | 21 | 19 |
| Plymouth | Hanson | 16 | 15 |
| Plymouth | Hingham | 55 | 0 |
| Plymouth | Hull | 31 | 0 |
| Plymouth | Kingston | 22 | 5 |
| Plymouth | Lakeville | 10 | 22 |
| Plymouth | Marion | 2 | 36 |
| Plymouth | Marshfield | 54 | 14 |
| Plymouth | Mattapoisett | 2 | 30 |
| Plymouth | Middleboro | 30 | 15 |
| Plymouth | Norwell | 21 | 12 |
| Plymouth | Onset | 5 | 60 |
| Plymouth | Pembroke | 24 | 21 |
| Plymouth | Plymouth | 118 | 0 |
| Plymouth | Plympton | 0 | 26 |
| Plymouth | Rochester | 0 | 32 |
| Plymouth | Rockland | 26 | 1 |
| Plymouth | Scituate | 50 | 0 |
| Plymouth | Wareham | 19 | 43 |
| Plymouth | West Bridgewater | 15 | 15 |
| Plymouth | Whitman | 21 | 5 |
| Suffolk | Boston | 1500 | 0 |
| Suffolk | Chelsea | 91 | 0 |
| Suffolk | Massport | 90 | 0 |
| Suffolk | Revere | 102 | 0 |
| Suffolk | Winthrop | 34 | 0 |
| Worcester | Ashburnham | 5 | 46 |
| Worcester | Athol | 18 | 16 |
| Worcester | Auburn | 31 | 16 |
| Worcester | Templeton | 1 | 43 |
| Worcester | Barre | 1 | 37 |
| Worcester | Berlin | 0 | 32 |
| Worcester | Blackstone | 9 | 25 |
| Worcester | Bolton | 0 | 22 |
| Worcester | Boylston | 0 | 39 |
| Worcester | Brookfield | 1 | 26 |
| Worcester | Charlton | 11 | 16 |
| Worcester | Clinton | 25 | 20 |
| Worcester | Douglas | 4 | 23 |
| Worcester | Dudley | 7 | 30 |
| Worcester | East Brookfield | 2 | 30 |
| Worcester | Fitchburg | 75 | 0 |
| Worcester | Gardner | 31 | 0 |
| Worcester | Grafton | 0 | 80 |
| Worcester | Hardwick | 0 | 41 |
| Worcester | Harward | 1 | 22 |
| Worcester | Holden | 16 | 45 |
| Worcester | Hopedale | 7 | 25 |
| Worcester | Hubbardston | 3 | 30 |
| Worcester | Lancaster | 2 | 35 |
| Worcester | Leicester | 0 | 55 |
| Worcester | Leominster | 79 | 0 |
| Worcester | Lunenburg | 4 | 32 |
| Worcester | Mendon | 5 | 15 |
| Worcester | Milford | 40 | 0 |
| Worcester | Millbury | 0 | 58 |
| Worcester | Millville | 2 | 24 |
| Worcester | New Braintree | 0 | 19 |
| Worcester | Northborough | 16 | 14 |
| Worcester | Northbridge | 12 | 32 |
| Worcester | Oakham | 0 | 25 |
| Worcester | Oxford | 11 | 22 |
| Worcester | Paxton | 0 | 42 |
| Worcester | Petersham | 0 | 26 |
| Worcester | Phillipston | 0 | 22 |
| Worcester | Princeton | 1 | 20 |
| Worcester | Royalston | 0 | 24 |
| Worcester | Rutland | 6 | 32 |
| Worcester | Shrewsbury | 33 | 25 |
| Worcester | Southborough | 21 | 6 |
| Worcester | Southbridge | 27 | 27 |
| Worcester | Spencer | 1 | 43 |
| Worcester | Sterling | 3 | 38 |
| Worcester | Sturbridge | 7 | 20 |
| Worcester | Sutton | 4 | 52 |
| Worcester | Upton | 4 | 45 |
| Worcester | Uxbridge | 10 | 20 |
| Worcester | Warren | 4 | 29 |
| Worcester | Webster | 47 | 0 |
| Worcester | West Boylston | 3 | 28 |
| Worcester | West Brookfield | 0 | 19 |
| Worcester | Westborough | 34 | 15 |
| Worcester | Westminster | 8 | 15 |
| Worcester | Winchendon | 7 | 24 |
| Worcester | Worcester | 466 | 0 |