Public Safety Subcommittee
January 28, 2025

FIRE DEPARTMENT UPDATE
Public Safety Subcommittee
January 28, 2025
1 Mike McCallum, Deputy Fire Chief
Staffing Updates
• Position Control List – 165 FTE:
• SAFER employees (12)
• Operations
• Suppression - 3 vacant positions
• InResponse - 1 vacant position (in recruitment)
• Continuous recruitment
• Academy of 6 in progress
• Fire Prevention
• Full staffing
• Administration
• Full staffing
2 Fire Stations
Fire Station 5 (Fountaingrove):
• Physical construction underway
• Estimated completion date April 2025
Fire Station 8 (Roseland):
• Design/Build Contractor selected; design phase in progress • No finite start date or completion date
3 Fleet
Current apparatus on order:
• Type 1 Fire Engines – 5
• Next arriving (5) – late 2025
• Two delivered and in service (ordered 12/21)
• Type 6 Fire Engines – 2
• In build process – March 2025
• Tillered Ladder Truck – 1
• Estimated delivery 2028
Planned orders:
• Transport capable squads
• Funded by PSAP
• In the purchasing process
4 SAFER
$7.08M Grant for 12 FTE over
three years
• Staffing ALS Squads
Update:
• In operation
• Running 110-130 calls for
service per week
5 Questions?
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