ABSTRACT
In recent years, various kinds of emergency events frequently took place, such as disastrous events and calamities, including earthquakes, volcanoes, floods, hurricanes, chemical spills, nuclear radiation escapes, epidemics, crashes, explosions, urban fires, etc. These disasters have not only caused tremendous suffering to people’s lives and property, but also affected the stability of society, and such disasters may occur around the world at any time (Oloruntoba, 2010). Consequently, modern societies have established public emergency services such as ambulances, fire brigades, police forces, civil defense and other organizations to attempt to manage various disasters and their impacts on life and property (Liu, 2004), in which the fire brigade is one of the most important emergency management department, and one of the main emergency rescue powers. Although various scholars have researched issues regarding disaster management (Li, 2011a; Kouzmin, 1995; Chen, 2008a; Turoff, 2004; Chen, 2008b), few have studied the Fire Brigades Disasters Response Capacity (Hietaniemi, 2008).
