This division is responsible for fire suppression, emergency medical services, wildland response, training, and special operations activities in our 520 square mile area. Members of the agency’s Operation Section respond to over 3500 calls for help each year out of our 2 full-time stations.
The Division is composed of 42 full-time personnel organized into three shifts in one battalion. Each is supervised by a Battalion Chief who is responsible for emergency and administrative functions for their particular shift. Each Battalion Chief subsequently reports directly to the Fire Chief. The work schedule is an alternating schedule of 48-hour shifts.
Our agency takes part in automatic aid, countywide, and statewide mutual aid.
In addition to fire fighting and medical training, the district employs personnel that are trained and equipped to handle unusual or technically challenging calls that fall outside normal fire or emergency medical responses. The personnel making up these special unit, or “team,” are fire department personnel that have been trained to confront incidents that pose a high degree of risk to both citizens and responders.
Special Operations
Within our operations division, there is a team of personnel that are specially trained to handle highly technical responses. These teams are the Technical Rescue Team and the Hazardous Materials Team.
In addition, our Wildland Division consists of highly trained personnel that respond in our area, around the State of Arizona as well as to other States.
By receiving hundreds of hours of specialty training, and by being part of the regional teams, our existing personnel are more productive in that they provide an increased level of service to the citizens of our community. Responses to wildland fires, floods, hazardous chemical accidents, building collapse, and the release of weapons of mass destruction are all addressed by our highly trained personnel.
The agency has a variety of specialty equipment and apparatus that can be used to augment general operations. Personnel involved with special operations regularly train in an effort maintain proficiency in their respective areas of expertise.
