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A~-~- A <br />County Responsibilities <br />for Fire Protection <br />Briefing Report for Orange County <br />Emily Anderson, MPA candidate <br />School of Government <br />University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill <br />11/9/2007 <br />This paper represents work done by a ZINC Chapel Hill Master of Public Administration <br />student as a supervised project. It is not a formal report of the Institute of Government, <br />nor is it the work of School of Government faculty. <br />Counties have no legal responsibility for fire protection. However, there are various state <br />statutes that outline legal requirements and options if a county chooses to provide this <br />service. This briefing memo summarizes these. It also includes background information <br />on fire service provision in several comparison North Carolina counties. <br />