The Department primarily focuses its efforts on public education, fire prevention initiatives,
preparedness and overall community risk reduction. Should these efforts fail, we are ready,
prepared and trained to respond to a wide variety of calls for service. We do this with fire
suppression resources, advanced life support
transport services, a technical rescue team, a hazardous materials team, aircraft rescue and
firefighting response and other services. These
services are dispatched from 8 strategically located stations throughout the community.

We serve around 100,000 citizens and have around 180 employees. We average 22,000 calls for service every year. We also have the only ambulance service in the county.