About Us

A Message from Fire Chief Doug Hall

Thanks to community support, the Westminster Fire Department  has the resources to meet the increased number of emergency calls. The department completed a Fire Department Performance and Resource Study several years ago which helped to identify the many positive attributes of the department and also helps to plan how to serve future community emergency service needs.

The Fire Department is dedicated to:

• Minimizing civilian casualties and property loss due to fire.
• Providing quality emergency medical care and ambulance transport services.
• Providing specialized services to accomplish underwater rescue and recovery, high angle and trench rescue, swift water rescue, extrication service and hazardous materials response.
• Providing public awareness training and education.
• Conducting fire investigations as warranted.
• Conducting building inspections and plan review.
• Facilitating city and community emergency preparedness.

Department Overview:

• Operates from six fire stations throughout the City of Westminster to quickly respond to home or building structure fires, vehicle fires, or fires of any nature.
• Addresses water rescues, hazardous materials, technical rescues, and other emergency responses.
• Offers advanced life support emergency medical and ambulance transport services.
• Provides four full time ambulances and six fire engines, all equipped with appropriate medical equipment for life support services.
• Prepares for and responds to large scale disasters through the City’s emergency management program, managed by the Fire Department.

Recent Highlights

• Low fire loss and reduced average response time to emergency calls by 5 seconds.
• Purchased new fire engine for St. #3 with aerial capabilities.
• Added a Heavy Rescue vehicle to the fleet.
• Adopted the 2009 International Fire Code.
• Implemented new records management system.
• Upgraded the station alerting system.

Current Objectives

• Conduct sixth Citizen Fire Academy.
• Continue mutual aid discussions with surrounding fire departments.
• Replacement of an ambulance.
• Implement Closest Unit Dispatching (Automatic Vehicle Locator).
• Revisit the department strategic plan.