The Council Bluffs Fire Department (CBFD) provides a full range of life safety protection for the 60,000 plus residents who live in Iowa’s eighth-largest city. The CBFD’s 108 career personnel, including firefighters and paramedic-trained personnel, give emphasis to all aspects of life safety. This includes fire prevention, fire fighting, emergency medical care, technical rescue, hazardous materials mitigation, disaster response, public education, and community service.
Professionally trained staff is on duty at all times at five neighborhood fire stations strategically located across the department’s 40-square-mile jurisdiction.
The administration is so out of touch with the day to day operations and what it’s like to do the job it’s laughable. Frontline guys have to look out for themselves because admin won’t have their backs. Dept is understaffed and instead of hiring to address it, employees are expected to take more and more overtime or deal with rigs out of service, putting more stress on crews and making their job more dangerous while doing a disservice to the public due to delayed response times and lack of resources and equipment. They city refuses to address pay that keeps falling behind similar departments in the region despite heavier call volumes and increased work load.
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The administration is so out of touch with the day to day operations and what it’s like to do the job it’s laughable. Frontline guys have to look out for themselves because admin won’t have their backs. Dept is understaffed and instead of hiring to address it, employees are expected to take more and more overtime or deal with rigs out of service, putting more stress on crews and making their job more dangerous while doing a disservice to the public due to delayed response times and lack of resources and equipment. They city refuses to address pay that keeps falling behind similar departments in the region despite heavier call volumes and increased work load.