Philadelphia Fire Department

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Philadelphia Fire Department
Established	1870
Staffing	Career
Stations	63
Engines	60
Trucks	29
Squads	2
Rescues	1
EMS Units	41
EMS Level	ALS
Commissioner	Lloyd Ayers

Philadelphia Fire Department is one of the oldest fire departments in the United States and provides fire fighting service within the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It has served Philadelphia for nearly 265 years.

An organized volunteer firefighting service was launched on December 7, 1736, and served for nearly 135 years. In December 1870, in order to combat the continued growth of the city, a City Council passed an ordinance to create a professional fire department.

The Philadelphia Fire Department also lays claim to the busiest ALS Medic Unit in the country, with a total of 9,540 calls in 2005 (2006 statistics not yet available), and is also one of the busiest all around EMS systems in the country, with 252,358 medical calls in 2005, an average of nearly 700 calls a day for it's 41 Medic Units.

Contents 1 Operations 1.1 Fire Suppression 1.2 EMS 2 Rank insignia 3 Memorial 4 See also 5 External links

[edit] Operations

[edit] Fire Suppression

• 39 Field Medic units
• 63 fire halls
• Fire Academy

• 60 pumpers
• 3 major crash vehicle - airport
• 2 rapid intervention vehicle - airport
• 29 ladders
• special service vehicles
• 3 fire boats/vessels

[edit] EMS

• 41 ambulances
• 290 paramedics

[edit] Rank insignia

Commissioner	Deputy Commissioner	Executive Chief	Deputy Chief
Battalion Chief	Captain	Lieutenant

[edit] Memorial

The Philadelphia Fire Department Memorial is in Franklin Square.

[edit] See also

• Philadelphia Police Department
• City of Philadelphia

[edit] External links

• http://www.firemanshallmuseum.org/