Ottawa Fire Services

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Canada's capital has been on a major apparatus upgrade over the past few years.  

 

A quick lowdown, there are 45 stations, 29 staffed with career members (4 of those outlying stations also have a volunteer contingent) and 16 volunteer stations.  Additional stations are in the planning stages, for rapidly growing areas of the city.  There are about 950 career members and 400 volunteers.  The city has a population of about 1,000,000, that grows significantly during the week. EMS is run by a separate city service, however, fire does respond to medical emergencies.  

 

There are a number of stations that are part of the Special Operations Division, including water/ice, high angle, technical, collapse, trench, and confined space rescue, and a level 3 hazmat team.

 

There are 9 districts, and the stations are numbered accordingly, eg. District 1 has station 11, 12, and 13, District 2 has stations 21, 22, 23, 24, and 25.

 

Pump 21 is one of 12 new KME 1250/600 pumpers recently purchased in 2013.  These pumpers were the first to be designed by a new apparatus committee, and are a major change from previous apparatus. Station 21 is one of 2 stations that provide hazmat services.