Mission Statement:
Provide
professional and reliable emergency services to the community we serve.
Vision:
Vision
– The best DoD Fire and Emergency Services
through: Values, Integrity, Strength, Innovation,
Organization, and Never ending commitment.
Who
we Serve:
Fort
Carson is the Department of Defense’s choice, innovative and second largest
Army installation. The main installation is located in central Colorado,
bordering the city of Colorado Springs to the north and extends thirty
miles to the south. Pinon Canyon, Army’s second
largest tactical training area that is satellite to Ft Carson, is
approximately 150 miles south of Fort Carson near Trinidad Colorado. Our jurisdiction covers 630 sq. miles
(402,000 acres). The installation serves a population of over 100,000
people. Fort Carson is the home to
the 4th Infantry Division, 10th Special Forces, and a
host of other military elements. The installation’s main urban area
consists of shops, malls, restaurants, schools, daycare facilities,
administrative buildings, motor pool maintenance facilities, a hospital,
family residential neighborhoods, and troop dormitories. The rural areas include one main airfield;
two satellite airfields and a vast landscape of special tactical and live
ordinance military training areas.
What
We Do:
Fort Carson Fire and Emergency
Services (FCFES) is committed to providing the
best and most progressive emergency services to the community. We are held as an innovative leader in
Army fire protection. A vast amount of awards have been bestowed us, to
include Army’s Top Fire Department in 1999, 2003 and IMCOM West Fire
Department of the Year in 2009. Not only do we provide service to our own
community, we regularly provide support to the surrounding communities
though automatic and mutual aid agreements.
Services
provided include:
E-911 (communications)
Fire Suppression
Emergency Medical Services
Heavy Rescue
Aircraft Crash Fire Rescue
Hazardous Material Response
Wildland
fire suppression
Wildland prescribed fire fuel management
Fire Prevention
Fire & Emergency Service
Training
How
we do it:
Service is provided from five strategically located fire stations,
one training/logistics center and administration building.
Engine
Company, Heavy Rescue, Type 6 Brush unit mobile breathing air unit and
Shift Commander
Engine
Company, Truck Company, Haz-Mat Company
Engine
(Crash) Company, Aircraft Crash Company, Water Tender
Type
3 Interface Engine Company and Type 6 Brush unit
Type
3 Interface Engine Company, Aircraft Crash unit, Type 6 Brush unit
Training
Chief and Captain, Incident Support Unit, Collapse Rescue unit, Reserve
Engine, Two Backup Type 6 Brush units and a backup Water Tender
Fire
Chief, Admin. Assistant, Chief Inspector, Three Inspectors
Our
professional, caring and dedicated personnel make the service we provide
number one. Their innovative vision, desire and skills have made us a very
progressive leader in Department of Defense (DoD)
Fire Service worldwide. Our
personnel are kept in the finest, state of the art apparatus and
equipment. Many programs, adopted DoD wide, are born here. Special programs and
involvement with other agencies keep our personnel on the cutting edge.
We
operate with two shifts on a true Kelly day schedule. Staffing level is
approximately thirty personnel per shift. Communications, training, fire
prevention and administration function on other various shifts and
schedules.
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