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Has your department considered purchasing body armor for fire personnel to use?

With many areas seeing a rise in violent crime, does your department provide body armor for members to wear on calls? Take our latest poll and see how others answered.

We already have body armor

52 %

We are currently researching body armor to purchase

7 %

We have considered it but no action taken

11 %

We have not considered purchasing body armor

30 %

Total

61

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