Montgomery Fire/Rescue

The Montgomery Fire/Rescue Department serves 175.37 square miles of the city in a medical, fire prevention and suppression capacity. Our workforce consists of 460 dedicated and professional employees, who are very diligent to remain highly trained, citizen oriented, technically current, as well as physically responsible. Four hundred and fifty one are unifomred and nine are civilian.

The Department operates its daily activities and functions from a centralized headquarters, Training Academy and fifteen fire stations. Montgomery Fire/Resuce protects the citizens of Montgomery with sixteen Class-A pumpers; five service as Advance Life Support (ALS) Rescue Companies, six Truck Companies and seven Fire Rescue Medic Units. The department's speciality units include two Hazardous Materials teams, one Heavy Resuce Team, one Dive/Swift Water Rescue Team and a vast arsenal of specialized tools and equipment.During the 2011 calendar year, Montgomery Fire/Rescue responded to 26043 EMS emergencies with an average response time of 4:11 minutes. These EMS runs totaled 84% of all emergency responses. In addition to the EMS emergencies, we responded to 4959 suppression emergencies with an average response time of 3:36 minutes to incidents within the city limits of Montgomery.