Fire & Rescue Services provides the fire ground effectiveness component of the “Comprehensive Fire Effectiveness Model” and provides a wide range of benefits to the community. Its performance affects the degree of damage to the environment and property and has a direct relationship to personal injury and death from fire.

In addition, it has an impact on the short– term and long-term disruption of the lives of citizens who are exposed to fire in their homes or businesses, or who suffer from the results of a traumatic incident, which involves a fire rescue response. Its performance also affects the short-term and long-term economic viability of the community.

These services include the following:

  • Structural firefighting including rescues
  • Vehicle firefighting
  • Grass and brush firefighting
  • Limited marine firefighting
  • Mutual aid
  • Advanced medical assistance with defibrillation
  • Hazardous materials response at the Technician and Specialist levels
  • Transportation incidents involving motor vehicles, trains, aircraft and watercraft
  • Land– based water and ice rescue
  • Public assistance, ambulance assistance, police assistance, public agency assistance
  • Community emergency planning
  • Limited confined space and high angle rescue
  • In-service public education
  • Provincial HazMat/CBRNE (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosive), and USAR (Urban Search and Rescue/Structural Collapse) Teams

This service operates from seven (7) fire stations strategically located throughout the City to provide adequate response times and appropriate fire attack teams. It operates under an incident command and accountability system for the safety of the public and firefighters.