The fire department in disaster operations in the 1960s.

"This document was written in 1970. For various reasons, it was made publicly available only on a very limited basis as a DRC Working Paper. However, to preserve the historical information provided, it is now being reissued as part of the DRC Historical and Comparative Disaster Series. The only change made from the original version is the addition to the title of the words "in the 1960s", and the providing of an abstract"

Along with the police department, the fire department in the United States is one community organization typically called upon in a crisis situation such as a natural/technological disaster or a riot/civil disturbance. This report analyzes fire departments in terms of: 1) their typical organizational patterns; 2) their disaster-related tasks and activities which are a response to the demands upon them; 3) their organizational adaptation to demand situations, especially those of high intensity; 4) their interorganizational relationships; and, 5) their potential involvement and organizational adaptation to a postnuclear attack environment as this was visualized in the 1960s