About CSFD
The College Station Fire Department (CSFD) is a internationally accredited agency with a class 1 ISO rating comprised of 174 professionals who protect and serve one of the most unique communities in America.
The department not only provides fire, EMS and HAZMAT response to College Station’s more than 129,000 residents, but also to Texas A&M University (69,000 students), Easterwood Airport, and partners with the neighboring City of Bryan and surrounding communities when needed.
The CSFD has an annual budget of $28 million and staffs six fire stations. College Station has the world's finest collection of emergency response training facilities in its backyard: Brayton Fire Training Field, Disaster City®, and the Emergency Operations Training Center — all operated by the Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service (TEEX).
Mission
Excellence through Service
Vision
CSFD will create a community free from preventable harm; we will create order anywhere there is chaos.
Values
Compassion. Service. Focus. Dedication.
Operations & Services
Emergency Operations is CSFD’s largest division, comprised of personnel who respond to emergency incidents from fire stations strategically located throughout the city.
An assistant chief oversees this division along with the help of three battalion chiefs. Each battalion chief is responsible for a specific 48-hour shift ("A", "B" or "C"). Battalion chiefs on each shift supervise all of the personnel, stations, and incidents within their battalion (geographic division). Firefighters work 48 hours on-duty, 96 hours off-duty, and shift change occurs at 7 a.m. The team assigned to a particular apparatus (engine, truck, or ambulance unit), and the apparatus itself, is known as "company."
In addition to responding to fires, medical calls, hazardous materials incidents, rescues, and other emergencies, fire station personnel are responsible for conducting pre-fire evaluations of businesses and apartment complexes, participating in continuing education and training, maintaining their equipment and station, presenting public education messages at schools, community events, station tours, and installing smoke detectors in homes.
Other emergency services provided by College Station Fire Department include: Fire suppression, Emergency Medical Services, Hazardous Materials, Airport Rescue Fire Fighting (ARFF), Wildland Firefighting, and Technical Rescue.
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