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In the decades prior to the 1990s, the Southern Platte Fire Protection District was an all-volunteer fire department in the Kansas City area. Morale was high and the organizational culture was cooperative, due to the department's small size and the fact that the chief had been elected by the firefighters and officers. Rapid population growth within the 75-square-mile community served by the department, however, was increasing its workload. Richard Carrizzo, who had joined the SPFPD as a volunteer firefighter in 1982, became its chief in 1993. A year later, the department began supplementing its staff with its first ...

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