Hospital and Health Services
Kanin Fjord lacks a hospital and only has a small community doctor’s office. A lone doctor and two nurses are the only medical personnel in town. Additionally, the village has one ambulance that is often out of service. The lack of a reliable ambulance leads to residents having to find their own way of reaching the town doctor.

Due to the village’s isolation, disease tends to be uncommon; however, being a fishing village where most citizens engage in backbreaking manual labor, injuries are quite common. The doctor’s office has only a limited capacity to treat patents with severe illness or serious injury. Any patients the hospital cannot treat are transported by ship down the fjord to Stokkvågen which has a fully functional hospital. Additionally, the village does not have a fully stocked pharmacy, and citizens often have to leave town to fill prescriptions. Medically speaking, the town is quite far behind the rest of the world, and the average life expectancy is only 55 years.

Fire Protection Services
Fires are not that uncommon, particularly due to the prevalent use of wood-burning fireplaces and homemade firepits. Protecting homes and structures from fire is a significant priority for the town due to the scarcity of building supplies such as milled lumber and concrete. Kanin Fjord has only one firetruck, two permanent firefighters, and four volunteer firefighters. The village is just under a mile across; therefore, the fire department is capable of responding quickly to any fires.

Police and Law Enforcement
Serious crime is a stranger to Kanin Fjord, and the police station is small as a result. The police department consists of a constable and his deputy, and the police station has only a single holding cell. There are no police cars in town, rather the constable has a single flashing light attachment for his car. In the event that more than two law enforcement officers are needed, the constable has the authority to deputize regular citizens.

Crime:

Kanin Fjord is a peaceful village, where crime is rare, and the citizens are content. Murder hasn’t occurred in the town since 1954 and the most serious crimes tend to be drunken bar fights and minor acts of vandalism committed by rambunctious adolescents. The village lacks both a court and permanent jail; therefore, villagers that commit more serious infractions must be transported to Stokkvågen for trial. Serious crime is so rare that the last time the village had to extradite anyone occurred 3 years ago.

Fire station (rannstasjon) on the left, Constable’s Office (konstabelens kontor) in the middle right, and the small brick building on the right is the town’s utility shed that houses the controls for the town’s electric and water services.

Legekontor: the town doctor’s office.