The Operation Bureau provides the community with a broad range of emergency services that protects life and property. These services include the Advanced Life Support (ALS) program, which places a paramedic on each fire engine company throughout the city. Additionally, all fire engine and ladder truck companies conduct annual fire code and safety inspections in every commercial business and multi-family occupancy.
Daily operational staffing consists of three rotating platoons of firefighters and paramedics working 24 hours each day of the year. Platoons are commanded by Battalions Chiefs and platoons are divided into units of firefighting and rescue teams called Fire Companies. A Fire Company assigned to a pumping engine is referred to as an Engine Company and those assigned to a ladder truck are classified as a Truck Company. A Fire Captain, for efficiency and safety purposes, supervises Fire Companies.
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