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Effective Financial and Resource Management for Fire Departments. Using Management in the Fire Service 4th Edition
Chapters 7 and 8 discuss the management of resources, both physical and financial. Today’s economy is forcing fire departments to take drastic measures in order to provide emergency services to a community. This includes being both efficient and effective when developing the future of a fire department.

Write a 1,400-1,750 word paper discussing effective financial and department resource management methods.

Include the following in your paper:

Select methods that have been proven to be reliable over the course of history.
Explain how these methods are being applied in today’s economy and fire service.
Select a fire department that has been significantly impacted by budget cuts.
Describe the department, the services that it delivers to the community.
Describe how the management of resources is impacting the level and quality of service that they are delivering.
Apply your knowledge of financial and resource management to discern what reduction in services, personnel, or apparatus has the department been forced to make, and was it necessary.
Analyze how, if at all, the cuts have affected the community.
Consider the following:

What new methods can you describe that could help deliver better service?
Describe effective financial and departmental resource management methods.